Surveillance écologique. Site de Flamanville. Le domaine benthique : étude par sonar latéral et prises de vue sous-marines (1983-1984)

The study of the sublittoral bottoms near the Flamanville site has been tackled in the pilot studies (1976) and project studies (1977 - 1979) in the aim of assessing benthic populations. Given the coarse nature of the sea bed, the identification (figure 1) was carried out using a towed tool susceptible of sampling in a semi-quantitative way on a wide variety of substrates: a Rallier du Baty drag. Apart from the rocky bottoms lying right next to the coast, on which no information could be collected, two types of populations have been identified.