FV Alvic Young Fish Survey 1985
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name | FV Alvic |
| Cruise identifier | Young Fish Survey 1985 |
| Cruise period | 1985-03-09 — 1985-09-23 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Whitstable, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Whitstable, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | Joint survey between: FV Alvic, FV Avon Valley, FV Challenge, FV Jo's Boys, FV Our Tracey, FV St Richard and FV Sundance; for the English component of international young flatfish programme.
Aim: To carry out the English component to the international young flatfish programme in the North Sea and the eastern English Channel. Team 2: Beam trawl survey of the South Thames area 18th-20th September. Push net sites were sampled throughout 3rd-23rd September. Results: 1. In total throughout the survey 232 hauls using the standard 2m beam trawl and 62 push net sites using the standard 1.5m push net sites sampled. All fish caught were identified and measured. Salinity, temperature and sediment samples were collected at each station. By-catch of shrimp was noted. 2. Lowestoft and Rye Bay. A survey of the distribution and abundace of 0-group sole. Live 0-group sole were collected for laboratory estimation of gastric evacuation (Lowestoft only). Live 0-group sole held in tanks for 24 hours then deep frozen. Samples of 0-group sole were collected for stomach content analysis, a description of the diurnal feeding pattern and for total lipid content analysis. Samples of 0-group sole and plaice collected for morphometric studies. |
| Chief scientist | Colin L Whiting (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.06 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | English Channel North Sea |
| Specific | The Wash - Swanage |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Surface measurements underway (T,S) | Description: observations made at every station |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Biochemical measurements (eg lipids, amino acids) | Description: samples of 0-group sole collected for total lipid content analysis |
| Demersal fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 232 Description: (in total throughout the survey) beam trawl survey of the South Thames |
| Demersal fish | Description: distribution and abundance of 0-group sole |
| Demersal fish | Description: deep frozen sole |
| Demersal fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 62 Description: (in total throughout the survey) push net sites in the South Thames area |
| Crustaceans | Description: shrimp by-catch recorded at all stations |
| Other biological/fisheries measurement | Description: samples of 0-group sole and plaice collected for morphometric studies |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Grab | Description: observations made at every station |
