FRV Alba Na Mara 1322A
Cruise plan
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | FRV Alba Na Mara (74NM) |
| Cruise identifier | 1322A |
| Cruise period | 2022-09-07 — 2022-09-15 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Fraserburgh, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Fraserburgh, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | Objectives
- Investigate whether artificial light can influence fish behaviour and enhance escape through a square mesh panel (SMP) in the extension of the trawl. - Obtain video footage of fish behaviour when passing through the illuminated bottom panel of a SELTRA box fitted with 300 mm SMP on the top panel. Procedure Equipment will be loaded onto MRV Alba na Mara at Fraserburgh on 3 September (provisional) 2022, where the trawl will be rigged onto the net drum. Scientific staff will join Alba around 0830 on 7 September and will then leave harbour once all drills and familiarisation have been completed. The vessel will sail thereafter and steam, weather permitting, to fishing grounds in the Moray Firth or alternatively the Dog Hole approximately 9 nm east of Aberdeen. The first day will be dedicated for fine tuning the gear configuration with a number of short hauls carried out to ensure rigging, lights and sensors are operating as intended through observations with video cameras mounted on the trawl. After the rigging trials are complete the fish behaviour trials will commence. The intention is for Alba to work daily from Fraserburgh harbour but may need to change fishing grounds if fish species composition and size is not suitable or weather is not favourable. Alba will return to Fraserburgh on the evening of 14 September to unload equipment and scientific personnel on 15 September. |
| Chief scientist | Alex Edridge (Marine Scotland Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
| Cruise programme |  (0.28 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland Unknown |
| Specific | Moray Firth |
