Stella
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name | Stella |
| Cruise period | 1989-07-30 — 1989-08-19 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To study the behaviour of haddock and whiting escaping from both diamond and square mesh codends.
2. To combine the investigation of the physiological condition of fish at various stages of the trawling process by measuring the lactic acid and glycogen levels before, during and after total exhaustion in the codend. 3. To recover all the cages from the sea bed and return them to Aberdeen. |
| Chief scientist | John Main (Scottish Office Agriculture and Fisheries Department Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.06 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland |
| Specific | Loch Gairloch |
| Measurements | |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Other biological/fisheries measurement | Description: Studying the physiological condition of fish at various stages of trawling process. |
| Other biological/fisheries measurement | Description: Observing fish behaviour when escaping from both diamond and square mesh codends. |
