FV Sundance 11/85
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name | FV Sundance |
| Cruise identifier | 11/85 |
| Cruise period | 1985-11-22 — 1985-11-27 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | Aim:
Preliminary studies of growth and mortality of young sole. Team 1: 22nd-27th November, Lowestoft, FV Sundance. Team 2: 17th-24th November, Rye Bay, FV St Richard. Results: 1. 22 beam trawl hauls and 5 push net sites were sampled. All fish caught were identified and measured. Salinity and sediment samples were collected and surface temperature observations were made at each station. By-catch of shrimp was noted at each station. 2. Live 0-group sole collected for laboratory estimation of gastric evacuation time. Live 0-group held in tanks for 24 hours then deep frozen for laboratory estimation of condition factors. Additional hauls made in daylight and dark and samples of 0-group sole from these hauls collected for stomach content anaysis. Samples of by-catch species collected for stomach content analysis. |
| Chief scientist | Colin L Whiting (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.05 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | English Channel North Sea |
| Specific | Lowestoft and Rye Bay |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Surface measurements underway (T,S) | Description: observations made at each station |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Demersal fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 22 Description: standard 2m beam trawl study the growth and mortality of young sole |
| Demersal fish | Description: deep frozenn sole |
| Demersal fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 5 Description: standard 1.5m pust net to study the growth and mortality of young sole. |
| Crustaceans | Description: by-catch of shrimp observed at every station |
| Other biological/fisheries measurement | Description: samples of 0-group sole and by-catch species collected for stomach content anaysis |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Grab | Description: observations made at each station |
