FV Challenge 'A'
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | FV Challenge 'A' (740E) |
| Cruise period | 1985-09-02 — 1985-09-06 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Skegness, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | AllTeams. To carry out the English component to the international young flatfish programme in the North Sea and the eastern English Channel. |
| Chief scientist | Terry Watson (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.06 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Specific | Skegness, Wash, Wells |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Subsurface temperature and salinity measurements | Quantity: number of hauls = 294 Description: A number of hauls were made as part of a flatfish survey. All fish caught were measured and identified. Salinity, sediment and temperature observations were also made. |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Pelagic fish | Description: Samples of sole and plaice were collected for morphometric analysis. No. of samples not noted. |
| Pelagic fish | Quantity: number of surveys = 2 Description: A survey of the distribution and abundance of 0 gp sole took place; a number of sole were collected for the laboratory and stomach contents analysed. |
| Pelagic fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 294 Description: A number of hauls were made as part of a flatfish survey. All fish caught were measured and identified. Salinity, sediment and temperature observations were also made. |
