RV Johan Hjort 2017208
Cruise plan
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Johan Hjort (58J3) |
| Cruise identifier | 2017208 |
| Cruise period | 2017-07-01 — 2017-07-29 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Bergen, Norway |
| Port of return | Bergen, Norway |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | Objectives
1. Internationally coordinated acoustic survey for herring and sprat in the North Sea and Skagerrak-Kattegat, coordinated by ICES (WGIPS) and including UK-Scotland, Netherlands, Ireland, Germany, Norway, and Denmark; the purpose of which is to provide a tuning series for assessments of herring and sprate. 2. Acoustic survey of saithe, which is to provide a tuning index to be used in the assessment of North Sea saithe (used within ICES-WGNSSK). |
| Chief scientist | Jennifer Devine (Institute of Marine Research, Norway) |
| Project | ICES Acoustic Herring Survey |
| Coordinating body | International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) |
| NPRC |  (0.14 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Kattegat, Sound and Belts Skagerrak North Sea |
