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FV Our Tracey Young Fish Survey 1988

Cruise summary report

Cruise Info. 
Ship nameFV Our Tracey
Cruise identifierYoung Fish Survey 1988
Cruise period1988-09-01 — 1988-09-23
StatusCompleted
Port of departureWest Mersea, United Kingdom
Port of returnWest Mersea, United Kingdom
PurposeResearch
ObjectivesJoint survey between: FV Alvic, FV Avon Valley, FV Challenge, FV Jo's Boys, FV Our Tracey, FV Sharowna, FV St Richard and Wash Harvester.

Aim:
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.

Team 2: Beam trawl survey of the north Thames estuary 7th-9th September. Push net sites sampled throughout the period 1st-23rd September.

Team 4: no ship listed. Departed from Bridlington to sample push net sites between the Wash and Berwick during 1st-10th September.

Results:
1. In total throughout the survey 320 hauls using the 2m beam trawl and 61 push net sites using the standard 1.5m push net sampled. 11 additional hauls made. All fish caught identified and measured. Surface salinity, temperature, sediment samples and benthos obervations made at each station. Shrimp by-catch recorded at each station. Observations of dissolved oxygen levels made at most stations in the Thames estuary and at all stations in the River Thames. Samples of plaice taken for age determination studies.

2. Samples of 0-group plaice collected. O-group plaice caught in Bridlington Bay area were heavily infested with Rhipidocotyle sp. Samples from nephrops catches of other vessels processed.
Chief scientistColin L Whiting (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory)
Cruise reportFV Our Tracey Young Fish Survey 1988 cruise report commercial_vessels_sep88.pdf (0.09 MB) 
Ocean/sea areas 
GeneralEnglish Channel
North Sea
SpecificScottish Border - Swanage Bay north Thames estuary
Measurements 
Physical oceanography 
Surface measurements underway (T,S)Description: Observations made at each station
Chemical oceanography 
OxygenDescription: Observations made at each station
Biology and fisheries 
PhytobenthosDescription: Observations made at each station
ZoobenthosDescription: Observations made at each station
Demersal fishQuantity: number of hauls = 61
Description: (in total throughout the young fish survey) pushnet sites in the north Thames estuary
Demersal fishDescription: samples of 0-group plaice collected
Demersal fishQuantity: number of hauls = 11
Description: (in total throughout the young fish survey) additional hauls in the north Thames estuary
Demersal fishDescription: (in total throughout the young fish survey) pushnet sites between the Wash and Berwick, no. of hauls not noted
Demersal fishQuantity: number of hauls = 320
Description: (in total throughout the young fish survey) beam trawl survey of the north Thames estuary
CrustaceansDescription: Samples from nephrops catches of other vessels processed
CrustaceansDescription: shrimp by-catch recorded at each station
Other biological/fisheries measurementDescription: O-group plaice caught in Bridlington Bay area heavily infested with Rhipidocotyle sp.
Geology and geophysics 
GrabDescription: Observations made at each station