Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
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| Ship name (ship code) | FV Angelle Marie (74ID) |
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| Cruise identifier | 1/90 |
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| Cruise period | 1990-05-24 — 1990-05-30 |
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| Status | Completed |
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| Port of departure | Warsash, United Kingdom |
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| Port of return | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
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| Purpose | Research |
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| Objectives | 1) To carry out survey of pre-recruit bass using a standard high-headline trawl with cod-end liner
2) To tag juvenile bass in harbours adjoining Solent
3) To sample commercial catches of bass as available to supplement the biological sampling programme |
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| Chief scientist | Graham D Pickett (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
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| Cruise report | (0.48 MB) |
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| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | English Channel |
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| Specific | Southampton Water, The Solent and adjacent waters, Standswood Bay, Portsmouth, Eastern Solent harbour, Langstone harbour, Chichester harbour |
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| Measurements | |
| Biology and fisheries | |
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| Demersal fish | Quantity: number of stations = 32 Description: Trawling. 242 bass caught |
| Demersal fish | Quantity: number of samples = 135 Description: Ad-hoc biological sampling at merchants produced length/scale samples of bass from 3 gear catagories |
| Taggings | Quantity: number of specimens = 181 Description: Taggings using mini-Howitt bridle for bass of 29 cm and above and Hallprint internal/external 'T' bar tags for bass 18-22 cm |