RV Belgica 2009-32
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Belgica (11BE) |
| Cruise identifier | 2009-32 |
| Cruise period | 2009-11-24 — 2009-12-04 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Zeebrugge, Belgium |
| Port of return | Zeebrugge, Belgium |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | Cruise in the frame of the EC-Research: 6th Framework Programme for Research & Technological Development: Reduction of the environmental impact of the sea fishery by technical adjustments to the beamtrawl, alternative stimuli or alternative fishery methods.
Objectives The development of 1) A benthic threshold. 2) A selective horizontal separator panel. Additional Objectives Survival study of discarded fish in a 4m beam trawl. Monitoring of the sole, plaice, turbot, brill and cod populations. |
| Chief scientist | Bart Verschueren (Institute for Agricultural and Fisheries Research, Ostend), Hans Polet (RBINS Management Unit of North Sea and Scheldt Estuary Mathematical Models, Ostend) |
| Cruise report |  (0.08 MB) |
| NPRC | (0.05 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Specific | Southern North Sea: Wenduine Bank, Shipwash, Orfordness, Lowestoft, Southland. |
| Track charts | (0.02 MB) |
