Nich-Tola
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name | Nich-Tola |
| Cruise period | 1990-11-24 — 1990-12-07 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of return | Annan, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To complete the cockle survey of Barnhourie and Mershead Sand using suction dredging and to sample the areas inaccessible to the land based quadrat survey in August.
2. To survey other commercially exploited cockle grounds in the Solway Firth including the Wigtown Bay area. 3. To locate suction dredge tracks in Wigtown Bay when exposed to low tide and estimate the number of damaged cockles left in the tracks. 4. Estimate discard survival. |
| Chief scientist | Trevor R W Howell (Scottish Office Agriculture and Fisheries Department Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.13 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Specific | Solway Firth |
| Track charts | (0.02 MB) |
| Measurements | |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Molluscs | Quantity: number of stations = 146 Description: sampled using a suction dredge |
