BIO Miguel Oliver PELACUS 0318
Cruise plan
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | BIO Miguel Oliver (29MO) |
| Cruise identifier | PELACUS 0318 |
| Cruise period | 2018-03-15 — 2018-04-15 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Vigo, Spain |
| Port of return | Vigo, Spain |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | The International Blue Whiting Spawning Stock is conducted yearly and provides the only fishery independent SSB estimate of this specie used in the assessment at the Working Group Widely Distributed Stocks (WGWIDE). Previously, the results were used by the ICES Blue Whiting Assessment Working Group. The survey north 51°30' started in the seventies and applies the echointegration method to estimate the blue whiting abundance. |
| Chief scientist | Pablo Carrera (Spanish Institute of Oceanography, Vigo Oceanography Centre) |
| Project | ICES International Blue Whiting Spawning Stock Survey (IBWSS) |
| Coordinating body | International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) |
| NPRC |  (0.34 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Celtic Sea |
