Cruise summary report
Cruise Info. | |
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Ship name | Patricia D |
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Cruise period | 1990-07-01 — 1990-08-29 |
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Status | Completed |
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Port of departure | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
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Port of return | Barry, United Kingdom |
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Purpose | Research |
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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 |
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Chief scientist | Stuart Ian Rogers (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Conwy Laboratory) |
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Cruise report | (0.71 MB) |
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Ocean/sea areas | |
General | Irish Sea and St. George's Channel |
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Specific | Rhyl Flats and Constable Bank, North Wales Coast |
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Measurements | |
Biology and fisheries | |
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Demersal fish | Description: Sole and plaice year class distribution survey using 2m beam trawl. |
Geology and geophysics | |
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Grab | Description: Day grab. |