FV Serenity Young Fish Survey 198
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name | FV Serenity |
| Cruise identifier | Young Fish Survey 198 |
| Cruise period | 1986-08-31 — |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Amble, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Amble, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | Surveyed Alnmouth and Druridge Bays for CEGB. Push net sites sampled.
Young Fish Survey 1986 with: FV Alvic, FV Avon Valley, FV Challenge, FV Jo's Boys, FV Serenity, FV St Richard, FV Joanna J., FV Kimbill of Eden and FV Sharowna. 1. 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. To include collecting data for juvenile flatfish yearclass size estimation. 2. To carry out an ecological survey of Alnmouth and Duridge Bays for the CEGB (CEGB funded). Results: 1. In total in the Young Fish Survey. 313 hauls made using the standard 2m beam trawl and 52 push net sites using the standard 1.5m push net sampled. All fish caught identified and measured. Salinity and sediment samples collected and surface temperature, benthos, shrimp by-catch and dissolved oxygen (River Thames) observed at each station. 2. 27 beam trawl hauls and 8 push net sites sampled. All fish caught identified and measured. |
| Chief scientist | Colin L Whiting (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.09 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| Specific | Scottish Border-Swanage Bay Alnmouth, Duridge Bays |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Surface measurements underway (T,S) | Description: observations made at every station |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Phytobenthos | Description: observations made at every station |
| Zoobenthos | Description: observations made at every station |
| Demersal fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 52 Description: (in total throughout Young Fish Survey) push nets of Alnmouth and Druridge Bays |
| Demersal fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 8 Description: (in total by Team 3) push net sites for the ecological survey of Alnmouth and Druridge Bays for CEGB |
| Demersal fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 27 Description: (in total by Team 3) beam trawls for the ecological survey of Alnmouth and Druridge Bays for CEGB |
| Demersal fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 313 Description: (in total throughout Young Fish Survey) beam trawl survey of Alnmouth and Druridge Bays |
| Crustaceans | Description: by-catch of shrimp recorded at each station |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Grab | Description: observations made at every station |
