Cruise summary report
Cruise Info. | |
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Ship name | FV Sundance |
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Cruise period | 1987-04-07 — 1987-04-10 |
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Status | Completed |
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Port of departure | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
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Port of return | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
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Purpose | Research |
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Objectives | 1. To estimate the post-winter population of juvenile sole
2. To collect sole samples for condition index and fat content estimation. |
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Chief scientist | Colin L Whiting (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
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Cruise report | (0.03 MB) |
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Ocean/sea areas | |
General | North Sea |
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Specific | Inshore of Lowestoft |
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Measurements | |
Physical oceanography | |
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Surface measurements underway (T,S) | Description: observations made at every station |
Biology and fisheries | |
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Demersal fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 26 Description: 23 of ten minutes duration made using standard 2m beam trawl. Three hauls of twenty minutes duration were made with beam trawl to fish for sole. |