FRV Goldseeker 9/87
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | FRV Goldseeker (74GO) |
| Cruise identifier | 9/87 |
| Cruise period | 1987-08-03 — 1987-08-18 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Gairloch, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Gairloch, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1) To catch fish escaping from codends using the driver's vehicle TUVII; to hold them in underwater cages and assess the survival report.
Fish will also be taken from inside the codend and control fish will be caught by handline and held in separate cages. 2) Where spots of fish can be located on the ships echosounder in shallow water, divers will descend to a position above them and attempt to follow and observe their reactions in the path of the advancing trawl gear. 3) The Biology Sections will collect gadiod stomachs to augment data for their fish cage experiments off Badachro, Gairloch. |
| Chief scientist | John Main (Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.08 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland |
| Specific | Gairloch |
| Measurements | |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Pelagic fish | |
| Acoustic reflection on marine organisms. | |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Bottom photography | Description: Cine film of the fish. |
