RV Dana 05/2012
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Dana (26D4) |
| Cruise identifier | 05/2012 |
| Cruise period | 2012-04-24 — 2012-05-23 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Hirtshals Havn, Denmark |
| Port of return | Hirtshals Havn, Denmark |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | Calibration of Echo-sounders and International Acoustic Monitoring of Herring and Blue whiting.
This survey is carried out in order to investigate distribution and migrations of the Atlanto-Scandian herring, blue whiting and other pelagic fish and to produce a biomass index for herring and a recruitment index for blue whiting for the Working Group on Widely Distributed stocks (WGWIDE). Furthermore hydrographic conditions and plankton abundance in the Norwegian Sea and adjacent waters are monitored in order to investigate distribution and migration of herring and other pelagic fishes are influenced by environmental conditions. |
| Chief scientist | Karl-Johan Staehr (Technical University of Denmark, National Institute of Aquatic Resources), Matthias H F Kloppmann (Thünen Institute of Sea Fisheries, Hamburg) |
| Cruise report |  (1.16 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Norwegian Sea |
| Track charts | (0.41 MB) |
