107. Grey seal have been shown to move from Thames Estuary area to haul out sites in the English Channel and on the French coast as far as Brest (Matthiopoulos et al. 2004).
108. A few grey seal have been tagged in the mouth of the Baltic and Kattegat and Skaggerak but these data (e.g. Dietz et al. 2003) do not provide certainty as to where the boundary lies between the Baltic population and the Northeast Atlantic population. However, numbers of grey seals in this region are low (Härkönen et al. 2007). Tagged pups from in the Kattegat-Skagerrak have been shown to originate from the Danish North Sea coast, but the timing of breeding indicated that animals may come from both the Atlantic and Baltic stocks. As such, Natura 2000 sites in the mouth of the Baltic and Kattegat and Skaggerak have been screened out.
109. Grey seal telemetry data show no evidence of connectivity between the German and Danish Natura 2000 sites along the German Bight with movement limited to the Dutch Waddensea and Delta areas, and not extending into the German Waddensea and Helgoland.
110. Following screening for distance from the East Anglia THREE site and potential connectivity based on telemetry data, 21 Natura 2000 sites remain to be considered for any potential LSE on grey seal features and will be taken forward in the next stage of the assessment.
Table 5.5: List of Natura 2000 sites designated for grey seal and those (unshaded) taken forward to the next step of screening in the HRA. Site code
Country Site name
BEMNZ0002 BEMNZ0003 BEMNZ0004 BEMNZ0005 DE0916391
DE1011401 DE1115391 DE1209301 DE1251301 DE1315391
DE1343301 DE1345301
DE1346301 DE1447302 DE1540302
HRA High Level Screening May 2014
Belgium Belgium Belgium Belgium Germany
Germany Germany Germany Germany Germany
Germany Germany
Germany Germany Germany
SBZ 1 / ZPS 1 SBZ 2 / ZPS 2 SBZ 3 / ZPS 3
Vlakte van de Raan
NTP S-H Wattenmeer und angrenzende Küstengebiete
SPA Östliche Deutsche Bucht Dünenlandschaft Süd-Sylt Sylter Außenriff Adlergrund
Küsten- und Dünenlandschaften Amrums
Plantagenetgrund
Erweiterung Libben, Steilküste und Blockgründe Wittow und Arkona Steilküste und Blockgründe Wittow Jasmund
Darßer Schwelle East Anglia THREE Offshore Windfarm Page 35
Screening stages (screened in =Y, screened out = N) Within 1000km Y Y Y Y Y
Y Y Y Y Y
Y Y
Y Y Y
Potential connectivity Y Y Y Y
N
N N N N N
N N
N N N
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