RV Dana 05/2018
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Dana (26D4) |
| Cruise identifier | 05/2018 |
| Cruise period | 2018-05-01 — 2018-05-30 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Hirtshals Havn, Denmark |
| Port of return | Hirtshals Havn, Denmark |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | This survey is carried out in order to investigate distribution and migrations of the Atlanto-Scandian herring, blue whiting and other pelagic fish, and to produce a biomass index for herring and a recruitment index for blue whiting for the Working Group on Widely Distributed stocks (WGWIDE). Furthermore hydrographic conditions and plankton abundance in the Norwegian Sea and adjacent waters are monitored in order to investigate distribution and migration of herring and other pelagic fishes are influenced by environmental conditions.
This survey was coordinated with Norway as an international survey with participation of Norway, Iceland, Faroe Islands and the EU, where the Danish R/V Dana conducted the EU survey part. With the exceptions of 2002 and 2003 the survey is carried out since 1997 with participation of EU countries together with Norway, Russia, Iceland and the Faeroese Islands. |
| Chief scientist | Karl-Johan Staehr (Technical University of Denmark, National Institute of Aquatic Resources), Matthias H F Kloppmann (Thünen Institute of Sea Fisheries, Hamburg) |
| Cruise report |  (1.05 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea Norwegian Sea |
