FFS Solea 722
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | FFS Solea (06SL) |
| Cruise identifier | 722 |
| Cruise period | 2016-06-29 — 2016-07-19 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Cuxhaven, Germany |
| Port of return | Cuxhaven, Germany |
| Purpose | Fisheries |
| Objectives | Objective: International acoustic survey for pelagic fish stocks in the North Sea
On 29 June FRV Solea left Cuxhaven and steamed towards position (54° 14'N, 007° 03'E) were the calibration was carried out. Finishing the calibration the survey started on 30/06/2016 at the position 54° 14'N. 007° 54'E. All investigations were done during day time from 0400UTC - 1800UTC. The acoustic equipment was the new echosounder EK80 with the hull-mounted transducers ES38B and ES120-7 respectively. The weather conditions were bad for summer time. In the evening of 19 July FRV Solea entered Cuxhaven harbor after covering 1873 NM of hydroacoustic transects. 29 fishery hauls with a pelagic trawl net PSN 388 Krake and 61 CTD casts were conducted. |
| Chief scientist | Eckhard Bethke (Thünen Institute of Sea Fisheries, Hamburg) |
| Coordinating body | International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) |
| Cruise report |  (1.12 MB) |
| NPRC | (0.36 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Specific | Southern North Sea (ICES Sub-divisions IVb, IVc) |
| Track charts | (0.15 MB) |
