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Prince Madog 2/sept94
Cruise summary report
Cruise Info. | |
Ship name (ship code) | Prince Madog (74PD) |
Cruise identifier | 2/sept94 |
Cruise period | 1994-09-12 — 1994-09-14 |
Status | Completed |
Port of departure | Menai Bridge, United Kingdom |
Port of return | Menai Bridge, United Kingdom |
Purpose | Research |
Objectives | Part 2 of the September cruise
1) To collect samples of fish from various NMP/EQS sites in the Irish Sea 2) To conduct a routine monitoring survey of the sediments and benthos of the Liverpool Bay sewage sludge disposal site 3) To collect sediment samples from a grid of stations within Liverpool Bay for evaluation of the McLaren sediment transport analysis technique 4) To collect samples of sediment, water and fish from sites within the River Mersey and its approach channel 5) To collect epibenthic samples from two sites in the Solway Firth using 2 M Beam Trawl 6) To collect sediment and benthos samples from a transect of sites across dredged material disposal site Z 7) A 2 m Beam Trawl sample was colleted in the area as part of a regional epibenthic survey Bad weather prevented the completion of Aim 4 and 5 |
Chief scientist | David Stephen Limpenny (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
Cruise report | (0.89 MB) |
Ocean/sea areas | |
General | Irish Sea and St. George's Channel |
Specific | Irish Sea, Liverpool Bay, River Mersey and Solway Firth |
Measurements | |
Biology and fisheries | |
Phytobenthos | Quantity: number of samples = 1 Description: 2m beam trawl, regional epibenthic survey |
Zoobenthos | Quantity: number of samples = 1 Description: 2m beam trawl, regional epibenthic survey |
Geology and geophysics | |
Grab | Description: grid of stations |