Cruise summary report
Cruise Info. | |
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Ship name (ship code) | FV Angelle Marie (74ID) |
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Cruise identifier | 1/91 |
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Cruise period | 1991-05-12 — 1991-05-23 |
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Status | Completed |
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Port of departure | Portsmouth Harbour, 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 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 |
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Chief scientist | Derek Roy Eaton (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
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Cruise report | (1.04 MB) |
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Ocean/sea areas | |
General | English Channel |
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Specific | Solent, Southampton Water, the adjacent harbours and the W Sussex and Hants coasts. |
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Measurements | |
Biology and fisheries | |
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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 |