Patricia D
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name | Patricia D |
| Cruise period | 1990-07-01 — 1990-08-29 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Barry, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | Leg 1 - 14-24 May
1) To complete the detailed study of sole and plaice year-class distribution in a local nursery area, initiated during the 1989 field programme 2) To examine aspects of benthic production on a sole nursery ground using samples of macrofauna taken from beam trawl catches, and samples of invertebrate infaunal prey using a Day grab |
| Chief scientist | Stuart Ian Rogers (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Conwy Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.71 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Irish Sea and St. George's Channel |
| Specific | Rhyl Flats and Constable Bank, North Wales Coast |
| Measurements | |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Demersal fish | Description: Sole and plaice year class distribution survey using 2m beam trawl. |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Grab | Description: Day grab. |
