Valdez Cruise 1
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name | Valdez |
| Cruise identifier | Cruise 1 |
| Cruise period | 1988-09-25 — 1988-10-30 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Saundersfoot, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Saundersfoot, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To carry out a survey of the distribution and abundance of pre-recruit bass in Camarthen Bay and adjoining estuaries using a high-headline trawl with cod-end liner and adapted sand-eel trawls.
2. To obtain 1+ group bass for ecological and energy budget studies. 3. To tag bass over 35cm total length. |
| Chief scientist | Graham D Pickett (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.04 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Celtic Sea |
| Specific | West of Pendine Firing Range, 'Three Rivers Area' and Burry Inlet |
| Measurements | |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Demersal fish | Quantity: number of specimens = 3 Description: Only a small number of 1+ bass were caught. |
| Demersal fish | Quantity: number of stations = 45 Description: A number of stations were worked, but pre-recruit bass were only found at 27 of the stations and only 63 were caught. |
