FV Challenge 'A'
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | FV Challenge 'A' (740E) |
| Cruise period | 1988-09-10 — 1988-09-23 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Wainfleet, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Wainfleet, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. All teams. To carry out an inshore beam trawl and pushnet survey of part of the North Sea and English Channel coasts, of young demersal fish in relation to the environment. To include collecting data for juvenile flatfish year-class size estimation. |
| Chief scientist | Terry Watson (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.09 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Specific | River Humber - North Norfolk Coast |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Subsurface temperature and salinity measurements | Quantity: number of hauls = 392 Description: A number of hauls were made as part of a young demersal fish survey. All fish caught were measured and identified. Salinity, sediment, oxygen, shrimp by-catch, benthos and temperature observations were also made. Samples of plaice were taken from the main areas fished. |
| Chemical oceanography | |
| Oxygen | Quantity: number of hauls = 392 Description: A number of hauls were made as part of a young demersal fish survey. All fish caught were measured and identified. Salinity, sediment, oxygen, shrimp by-catch, benthos and temperature observations were also made. Samples of plaice were taken from the main areas fished. |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Sediment traps | Quantity: number of hauls = 392 Description: A number of hauls were made as part of a young demersal fish survey. All fish caught were measured and identified. Salinity, sediment, oxygen, shrimp by-catch, benthos and temperature observations were also made. Samples of plaice were taken from the main areas fished. |
| Zoobenthos | Quantity: number of hauls = 392 Description: A number of hauls were made as part of a young demersal fish survey. All fish caught were measured and identified. Salinity, sediment, oxygen, shrimp by-catch, benthos and temperature observations were also made. Samples of plaice were taken from the main areas fished. |
| Pelagic fish | Description: Samples of live sole were collected and frozen for later laboratory 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, in preparation for estimation of overwintering mortality rate. |
| Pelagic fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 392 Description: A number of hauls were made as part of a young demersal fish survey. All fish caught were measured and identified. Salinity, sediment, oxygen, shrimp by-catch, benthos and temperature observations were also made. Samples of plaice were taken from the main areas fished. |
| Demersal fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 392 Description: A number of hauls were made as part of a young demersal fish survey. All fish caught were measured and identified. Salinity, sediment, oxygen, shrimp by-catch, benthos and temperature observations were also made. Samples of plaice were taken from the main areas fished. |
| Crustaceans | Quantity: number of hauls = 392 Description: A number of hauls were made as part of a young demersal fish survey. All fish caught were measured and identified. Salinity, sediment, oxygen, shrimp by-catch, benthos and temperature observations were also made. Samples of plaice were taken from the main areas fished. |
