Heathery Brae
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name | Heathery Brae |
| Cruise period | 1990-07-29 — 1990-08-25 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Gairloch, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Fisheries |
| Objectives | Part 1:
1. To investigate survival rates (in underwater cages) of cod, haddock and whiting escaping from cod ends of 90mm x 120 round, 90mm x 100 meshes round and 90mm with an 80mm square mesh top panel. 2. To obtain selectivity data for each cod-end. Part 2: 3. To lift all the underwater cages and clear the site and distribute live fish for other projects. |
| Chief scientist | John Main (Scottish Office Agriculture and Fisheries Department Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.10 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland |
| Specific | Gairloch, Scotland |
| Measurements | |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Demersal fish | Quantity: activity duration in days = 7 Description: During the 1st week haddock, whiting and codling were caught on handlines and kept in cages as controls for the experiment. |
| Demersal fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 1 Description: Extra hauls had to be made to boost the number of codling needed for the cage experiments. No. of hauls not specified. |
| Demersal fish | Quantity: activity duration in days = 11 Description: Within this period small haddock, whiting and codling were taken. Fish escaping the codend mesh were retained for survival experiments. |
