Cruise summary report
Cruise Info. | |
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Ship name | Mary |
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Cruise identifier | 7/87 |
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Cruise period | 1986-07-27 — 1986-07-29 |
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Status | Completed |
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Port of departure | Pwllheli, United Kingdom |
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Port of return | Pwllheli, United Kingdom |
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Purpose | Research |
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Objectives | Cruises with Arctic Ranger, Harmil, Mary and Rose.
1. To carry out three inshore beam trawl surveys of parts of the Irish Sea and West Wales coasts.
2. To sample juvenile fish and identify sole nursery grounds.
Survey 1: Beam trawl survey of Tremadoc Bay. 27th-29th July.
Survey 2: repeat of 1, 24th-25th September.
Survey 3: beam trawl stations completed, 28th-29th October. |
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Chief scientist | Stuart Ian Rogers (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Conwy Laboratory) |
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Cruise report | (0.06 MB) |
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Ocean/sea areas | |
General | Irish Sea and St. George's Channel |
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Specific | Tremadoc Bay |
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Measurements | |
Physical oceanography | |
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Surface measurements underway (T,S) | Quantity: number of stations = 146 Description: (in total for all 4 ships) recorded at each station during survey 1, repeated in survey 2 and 3 |
Biology and fisheries | |
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Demersal fish | Quantity: number of stations = 146 Description: (in total for all 4 ships) 2m beam trawl for survey 1, repeated in survey 2 and 3; all flatfish were identified, measured and counted, other species were identified and counted |
Demersal fish | Quantity: number of specimens = 30 Description: (in total for all 4 ships) 1-group soles returned live to the laboratory for tag-retention trials. |
Other biological/fisheries measurement | Description: 0-group sole and solenettes were preserved for gut content analysis |
Other biological/fisheries measurement | Description: 0-group soles collected for electrophoretic studies and frozen |