Thalassa EVHOE2019
Cruise plan
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | Thalassa (35HT) |
| Cruise identifier | EVHOE2019 |
| Cruise period | 2019-10-21 — 2019-12-07 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Nantes, France |
| Port of return | Nantes, France |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | French Bottom Trawl Surveys in Bay of Biscay and Celtic Sea (survey code: EVHOE)
Objectives - Obtain abundance indices per age group and annual recruitment estimates for the sampled species. - Build a reliable time series of those indices. - Follow the evolution of the demographic structures of the main exploited fish populations. - Map the spatio-temporal distribution of the fisheries resources per age group. - Obtain additional information on continental shelf ecosystems (e.g. benthic invertebrates, benthic habitats, pelagic components, hydrology) to better analyze distributions and trends of fish and cephalopods components. |
| Chief scientist | Erwan Duhamel (IFREMER, Lorient Station), Francois Garren (IFREMER, Brest), Pascal Laffargue (IFREMER Atlantic Centre) |
| NPRC |  (0.97 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Celtic Sea Bay of Biscay |
| Specific | ICES divisions VII e-j, VIII a-d |
