Zatoka Pucka is a unique site on the south Baltic coast system of relatively warm, shallow sea waters. It is characterized by little salinity and little water dynamic and rare and endangered vegetable and animal communities. It is also an important feeding and resting place for migratory birds as well as an important wintering place for many birds that hatch on the north Baltic. Communities of coastal halophytic meadows, rare in Poland, have survived on Zatoka Pucka coast along with sets of birds connected with these vegetation systems. The refuge encompasses a fragment of Polish territorial waters (Polish economic zone) as well as coastal meadows in Pomeranian voivodship, county of Puck. The refuge has been located on waters of Zatoka Pucka. Its west border is the line between the sea and the land, expanding in three places to the land: near Wladyslawowo (Slone Laki), by an estuary of the Reda river (Beka) and near Mechelinek (Mechelinskie Laki).  more »

The area encompasses waters of a west part of Zatoka Gdanska, between coast of Polwysep Helski (the Hel Peninsula) in the north, a part of shore from Wladyslawowo to the Wisla Smiala estuary in the west and in the south, and a line between the Wisla Smiala estuary and the end of Hel in the east. more »