FV Angelle Marie 1/91
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | FV Angelle Marie (74ID) |
| Cruise identifier | 1/91 |
| Cruise period | 1991-05-12 — 1991-05-23 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Portsmouth Harbour, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1) To carry out a survey of pre-recuit bass in the Solent area using a standard high-headline trawl with a cod-end liner fitted
2) To investigate the distribution and abundance of 1990 year class bass in the area 3) To tag juvenile/pre-recruit bass in bass nursery areas 4) To sample commercial landings of bass along the Hants and Sussex coast |
| Chief scientist | Derek Roy Eaton (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (1.04 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | English Channel |
| Specific | Solent, Southampton Water, the adjacent harbours and the W Sussex and Hants coasts. |
| Measurements | |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Demersal fish | Quantity: number of stations = 52 Description: trawled covering the whole of the survey area. Replicate tows were also made. |
| Demersal fish | Quantity: number of specimens = 862 Description: Bass caught in the length range 13-18 cm |
| Demersal fish | Quantity: number of specimens = 367 Description: Bass and 222 scale samples which will be included in the biological sampling programme for the area |
| Demersal fish | Quantity: number of stations = 19 Description: trawled using the sandeel trawl. 1076 bass caught |
| Taggings | Quantity: number of specimens = 318 Description: tagged and released in nursery areas. Hallprint 'T' bar internal/external tags were placed on 289 fish, 29 fish were tagged using mini-Howitt rigid flag tags |
