RV Belgica 2009-10
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Belgica (11BE) |
| Cruise identifier | 2009-10 |
| Cruise period | 2009-03-31 — 2009-04-03 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Zeebrugge, Belgium |
| Port of return | Zeebrugge, Belgium |
| Purpose | Fisheries |
| Objectives | Testing the performance of an alternative beam trawl. The Belgian fishing fleet consists mainly of beam trawlers. This fishing method has some serious drawbacks like high fuel and material consumption, high discard levels and a significant environmental impact. ILVO-Fishery (Oostende) is developing an alternative beam trawl in close cooperation with the fishery sector in order to reduce these drawbacks. Several alterations are being tested and are already used on board of some commercial beam trawlers on an experimental and voluntary basis. |
| Chief scientist | Jochen Depestele (Institute for Agricultural and Fisheries Research, Ostend) |
| Cruise report |  (0.06 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Specific | Southern North Sea: Stroombank, Westdiep, West Stroom, Stroombank, Barrow, Gunfleet. |
| Track charts | (0.04 MB) |
