Cruise summary report
Cruise Info. | |
---|
Ship name | Solstice |
---|
Cruise identifier | 0992H_2 |
---|
Cruise period | 1992-08-02 — 1992-08-15 |
---|
Status | Completed |
---|
Port of departure | Macduff, United Kingdom |
---|
Port of return | Gairloch, United Kingdom |
---|
Purpose | Research |
---|
Objectives | To assess the survival of commercial species of fish escaping from bottom trawl cod ends as used by the Scottish fleet. |
---|
Chief scientist | G I Sangster (Scottish Office Agriculture and Fisheries Department Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
---|
Cruise report | (0.12 MB) |
---|
Ocean/sea areas | |
General | North Sea |
---|
Specific | Northwest North Sea |
---|
Measurements | |
Biology and fisheries | |
---|
Demersal fish | Description: Fish were captured, with control fish, 30 whiting and haddock, and introduced to the three seabed cages. Mortality rates of the caught fish were then measured.
No. of measurements not noted. |