Patricia D
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name | Patricia D |
| Cruise period | 1992-09-07 — 1992-09-14 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Barry, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To repeat the grid survey conducted during May 1989, May 1990 and May 1991 to establish a time-series of 1-group sole abundance on the North Wales coast.
2. To measure the biomass and production of 0-group sole and plaice, and of other selected epifauna, during a nine week period from early July. 3. To undertake studies of 0-group sole feeding ecology on the nursery ground. 4. To assess performance of 4-5 cm long hatchery reared juvenile sole following liberation on to a sole nursery ground. |
| Chief scientist | Stuart Ian Rogers (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Conwy Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.08 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Irish Sea and St. George's Channel |
| Specific | Rhyl Flats, North Wales. |
| Measurements | |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Demersal fish | Quantity: number of stations = 91 Description: grid survey to determine sole abundance |
