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FV Avon Valley Young Fish Survey 1987

Cruise summary report

Cruise Info. 
Ship name (ship code)FV Avon Valley (74FV)
Cruise identifierYoung Fish Survey 1987
Cruise period1987-09-02 — 1987-09-18
StatusCompleted
Port of departureMudeford, United Kingdom
Port of returnMudeford, United Kingdom
PurposeResearch
ObjectivesCombined survey using: FV Avon Valley, FV Challenger, FV Jo's Boys, FV Our Tracey, FV Sharowna, FV St Richard and FV Sundance.

Aims:
To carry out an inshore beam trawl and push net survey of part of the North Sea and English Channel coasts of young demersal fish in relation to the environment. Including collecting data for juvenile flatfish yearclass size estimation.

Team 1: Beam trawl survey of Selsey Bill to Swanage Bay area 13th-17th September. Push net sites sampled throughout 2nd - 18th September. Cooling water intake screens at Dungeness 'A' power station sampled on 4th and 20th September.

Results:
Throughout the whole survey a total of 303 valid hauls using the standard 2m beam trawl and 40 push net sites using the standard 1.5m push net were sampled. All fish caught were identified and measured. Surface salinity and sediment samples were collected and surface temperature and benthos observations were made at each station. Observations of shrimp by-catch were recorded at each station. Samples of plaice were obtained in each of the main area fished for age determination studies.

Samples of 0-group sole were collected.
Chief scientistColin L Whiting (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory)
Cruise reportFV Avon Valley Young Fish Survey 1987 cruise report commercial_vessels_oct87.pdf (0.06 MB) 
Ocean/sea areas 
GeneralEnglish Channel
North Sea
SpecificThe Wash-Swanage Bay Selsey Bill to Swanage Bay
Measurements 
Physical oceanography 
Surface measurements underway (T,S)Description: Observations made at each station.
Biology and fisheries 
PhytobenthosDescription: Observations made at each station.
ZoobenthosDescription: Observations made at each station.
Demersal fishQuantity: number of hauls = 303
Description: (in total throughout the survey) standard 2m beam trawls and 40 standard 1.5m push net.
Demersal fishDescription: samples of plaice for age determination studies
Demersal fishDescription: samples of 0-group sole
Demersal fishQuantity: number of hauls = 40
Description: (in total throughout the survey) standard 1.5m push net in the area of Rye Bay to Beachy Head
CrustaceansDescription: Shrimp by-catch recorded at each station.
Geology and geophysics 
GrabDescription: Observations made at each station.