FV Sharowna Young Fish Survey 1989
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name | FV Sharowna |
| Cruise identifier | Young Fish Survey 1989 |
| Cruise period | 1989-09-03 — 1989-09-24 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Brighton, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Brighton, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | Joint survey between: FV Avon Valley, FV Challenger, FV Janet M, FV Jo's Boys, FV Our Tracey, FV Sharowna, FV St Richard, FV Our Sarah Jane and FV Provider.
Aims: 1.To carry out an inshore beam trawl and pushnet survey of part of the North Sea and English Channel coasts, of young demersal fish in relation to the environment. 2. To include collecting data for juvenile flatfish year class size estimation. Team 1: Beam trawl survey in the area Newhaven to Littlehampton 23rd-24th September. Pushnet sites sampled throughout the period 3rd-22ndSeptember. Results: 1. In total throughout the survey 330 hauls using the standard 2m beam trawl and 43 pushnet sites using the standard 1.5m pushnet were sampled. All fish caught were identified and measured. Surface salinity, temperature, sediment samples and benthos were measured at each station. Shrimp by-catch was recorded at each station. 2. Samples of plaice collected for age determination studies. |
| Chief scientist | Colin L Whiting (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.06 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | English Channel North Sea |
| Specific | Flamborough Head- Swanage Bay Newhaven to Littlehampton |
| 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 = 330 Description: (in total throughout the young fish survey) beam trawl survey of the Newhaven to Littlehampton |
| Demersal fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 43 Description: (in total throughout the young fish survey) pushnet sites in the Newhaven to Littlehampton |
| Demersal fish | Description: samples of plaice collected for age determination studies |
| Crustaceans | Description: Shrimp by-catch recorded at each station |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Grab | Description: observations made at every station |
