FFS Solea 660
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | FFS Solea (06SL) |
| Cruise identifier | 660 |
| Cruise period | 2012-08-17 — 2012-08-26 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Cuxhaven, Germany |
| Port of return | Cuxhaven, Germany |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | Objectives
1. To participate in the ICES co-ordinated International Beam Trawl Survey in the North Sea 2. Distribution of temperature and salinity in the area of investigation Narrative The port of Cuxhaven was left on 17.8., steaming overnight with good weather conditions to the area scheduled for the Beam Trawl Survey west of Sylt, north of the Danish border (ca. 55°N). The following days the offshore stations were sampled from south to north, while the inshore stations were investigated from north to south. Due to a storm front the survey was aborted early in the afternoon on August 25. With the abandonment of two hauls the survey ended in the early hours of 26.8. in Cuxhaven. |
| Chief scientist | Kay Panten (Thünen Institute of Sea Fisheries, Hamburg) |
| Project | ICES International Beam Trawl Survey |
| Coordinating body | International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) |
| Cruise report |  (0.05 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Specific | German Bight |
| Track charts | (0.02 MB) |
