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RV Celtic Voyager CV15011
Cruise plan
Cruise Info. | |
Ship name (ship code) | RV Celtic Voyager (45CV) |
Cruise identifier | CV15011 |
Cruise period | 2015-05-17 — 2015-05-24 |
Status | Completed |
Port of departure | Cork, Ireland |
Port of return | Cork, Ireland |
Purpose | Fisheries |
Objectives | Objectives
1. To quantify the chronic effect of trawling on macroinfauna community functional composition (i.e. abundance, richness, evenness). 2. To assess the impact of bottom trawling on the trophic structure of benthic communities in the Celtic Sea Nephrops fishery. 3. To assess whether bottom trawling affects the fitness of fish species that feed on benthic invertebrates by changing their food availability. |
Chief scientist | Marija Sciberras (Bangor University School of Ocean Sciences) |
NPRC | (0.49 MB) |
Ocean/sea areas | |
General | Celtic Sea |