Cruise summary report
Cruise Info. | |
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Ship name (ship code) | FV Angelle Marie (74ID) |
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Cruise identifier | 1/93 |
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Cruise period | 1993-05-22 — 1993-05-30 |
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Status | Completed |
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Port of departure | Chichester, United Kingdom |
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Port of return | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
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Purpose | Research |
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Objectives | 1) To carry out trawl survey of pre-recruit bass in the Solent area.
2) To sample commercial bass landings in the area to augment the biological sampling programme
3) To tag adolescent and older bass. |
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Chief scientist | Derek Roy Eaton (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
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Cruise report | (1.32 MB) |
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Ocean/sea areas | |
General | English Channel |
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Specific | Southampton Water, The Solent and the Sussex coast, Poole, Portsmouth, Selsey |
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Measurements | |
Biology and fisheries | |
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Demersal fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 45 Description: 2713 bass length range 14-41 cm, 8 fish above 36 cm, |
Demersal fish | Quantity: number of specimens = 122 Description: Bass from 9 landings were sampled at fish merchants |
Taggings | Quantity: number of specimens = 75 Description: bass between 30 and 39 cm were tagged using Hallprint medium internal/external 'T' bar tags. 9 recaptured bass tagged with 'T' bars were brought back from the Poole office for examination |