FFS Solea 786
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | FFS Solea (06SL) |
| Cruise identifier | 786 |
| Cruise period | 2020-12-04 — 2020-12-20 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Cuxhaven, Germany |
| Port of return | Bremerhaven, Germany |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | The purpose of this trip was again the qualitative and quantitative recording of the demersal fish fauna in the German Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of the North Sea. In conjunction with the results of investigations of the benthic invertebrate fauna of other research institutes possible changes due to increasing industrialization (wind farms, sand and gravel extraction) are to be detected. The entire EEZ was divided into different ecological zones and covered with a fixed station network. Since the investigation began in 2004, an annual exchange between the beam trawl and bottom trawl maintained. This year the investigations were therefore carried out again with the bottom trawl.
A total of 49 fish species and 43 invertebrate species were detected in the 63 carried out hauls with the bottom trawl. The fish were dominated by species dab, sprat, grey gurnad, plaice, herring and whiting. The catch of invertebrates consisted mainly of starfish, swimming crabs and whelks. |
| Chief scientist | Kay Panten (Thünen Institute of Sea Fisheries, Bremerhaven) |
| Cruise report |  (0.60 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Specific | German Bight |
