FFS Walther Herwig III 366
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | FFS Walther Herwig III (06NI) |
| Cruise identifier | 366 |
| Cruise period | 2013-07-26 — 2013-08-20 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Bremerhaven, Germany |
| Port of return | Bremerhaven, Germany |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | This cruise covered fisheries research representing the German contribution to the International Bottom Trawl Survey (IBTS) in quarter III, as well as one component of the two‐ship operation in the German Small‐scale Bottom Trawl Survey (GSBTS). Both surveys use the same principle fishing methods but at different spatial scales, applying a GOV bottom trawl, accompanied by hydrographic measurements, investigations of benthic epifauna, infauna and sediments.
Objectives 1. Biological monitoring of bottom fish stocks and fish assemblages for the International Bottom Trawl Survey (IBTS) 2. Biological monitoring of bottom fish assemblages for the German Small-scale Bottom Trawl Survey (GSBTS) 3. Hydrography 4. Chemical oceanography 5. Monitoring of epibenthos 6. Sediment sampling 7. Seabird observations |
| Chief scientist | Anne Sell (Thünen Institute of Sea Fisheries, Hamburg) |
| Project | ICES International Bottom Trawl Survey (IBTS) |
| Coordinating body | International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) |
| Cruise report |  (0.75 MB) |
| NPRC | (0.57 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Specific | German Bight, central and northern North Sea. |
| Track charts | (0.75 MB) |
