Prince Madog 28/91
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | Prince Madog (74PD) |
| Cruise identifier | 28/91 |
| Cruise period | 1991-09-25 — 1991-09-27 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Menai Bridge, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Menai Bridge, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | Part B of the September 1991 cruise
1) To conduct a routine monitoring survey of the sediments and benthos of the Liverpool Bay sewage disposal site using a Day grab 2) To conduct a survey of sediment around the dredged material disposal site Z for benthic macro- and meio- fauna and for various contaminants, using a Day grab, Tennant and Craib cores, and 2 m beam trawl 3) To deploy the MAFF underwater sledge (TV) at a sewage sludge and dredged material disposal sites in Liverpool Bay |
| Chief scientist | Hubert Llewelyn Rees (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Burnham Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (1.24 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Irish Sea and St. George's Channel |
| Specific | Irish Sea |
| Measurements | |
| Contamination | |
| Other contaminant measurements | Quantity: number of stations = 18 Description: 9 stations for meiofauna samples using a Craib corer and 9 stations for macrofauna and of sediments for particle size and trace contaminants |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Dredge | Quantity: number of samples = 6 Description: anchor dredge samples |
| Grab | Quantity: number of stations = 18 Description: 9 stations for meiofauna samples using a Craib corer and 9 stations for macrofauna and of sediments for particle size and trace contaminants |
| Core - soft bottom | Quantity: number of stations = 18 Description: 9 stations for meiofauna samples using a Craib corer and 9 stations for macrofauna and of sediments for particle size and trace contaminants |
