RV Prince Madog
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Prince Madog (74PD) |
| Cruise period | 1989-09-25 — 1989-09-28 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Menai Bridge, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Menai Bridge, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To carry out a baseline survey of the Barrow dredgings disposal site using grabbing and beam trawling.
2. To survey sediments around the dredging disposal site Z for benthic fauna and various contaminants. 3. To survey the sediments in the Burbo Bight for various contaminants. Aims 1 and 2 were successfully completed, however samples were not collected from the Burbo Bight (aim 3) due to time restrictions caused by bad weather. |
| Chief scientist | Steven M Rowlatt (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Burnham Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.07 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Irish Sea and St. George's Channel |
| Specific | Liverpool Bay |
| Measurements | |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Demersal fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 60 Description: brown shrimp collected for chemical analysis |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Dredge | Quantity: number of deployments = 2 Description: rock dredge stations worked. |
| Grab | Quantity: number of samples = 13 |
| Bottom photography | Quantity: activity duration in hours = 1.5 Description: video coverage. |
