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«Dr. Fridtjof Nansen» The fishery research vessel «Dr. Fridtjof Nansen» belongs to the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD). It was designed and built for scientific and exploratory investigations of fishery resources of developing countries, under a joint plan with the Fisheries Department of FAO based on a funding of operation to be shared by FAO and Norway. The first six years of operation have included surveys of the pelagic fish resources of the NW Arabian Sea (1975-76), and of the coastal fish resources of Pakistan, Mozambique, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh (1977-79), and finally those of Burma described in this report. The Institute of Marine Research, Bergen is under a subcontract with NORAD responsible for the operation of the vessel, and the various research programmes were planned and conducted jointly with the relevant fisheries research organizations in the countries concerned. Results of the previous surveys have been reported on in a
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REPORTS OF SURVEYS WITH THE R/V DR. FRIDTJOF NANSEN
Surveys of the Marine Fish Resources of Burma September-November 1979 and March-April 1980.
Edited by
T. Stremme, *
O. Nakken, *
Sann Aung **
and G. S¿tersdal *
**Peoples Pearl and Fisheries Corporation, RangoonThis electronic document has been scanned using optical character recognition (OCR) software and careful manual recorrection. Even if the quality of digitalisation is high, the FAO declines all responsibility for any discrepancies that may exist between the present document and its original printed version.
*Institute of Marine Research, Bergen
4. General features of the hydrographical environment
5. Results of the fish survey work
5.1 The echo recordings and their interpretation
5.2 The estimates of total fish biomass
5.3 Fish distribution on the Arakan Coast5.2.1 The small pelagic fish, Arakan coast
5.3.2 Other fish, Arakan coast
5.3.3 Results of the fishing operations, Arakan coast5.4 Fish distribution in the Delta area
5.4.1 The small pelagic fish, Delta Area
5.4.2 Other fish, Delta Area
5.4.3 Results of the fishing operations, Delta area5.5 Fish distribution on the Tenasserim Coast
5.5.1 The small pelagic fish on the Tenasserim coast
5.5.2 Other fish on the Tennasserim coast
5.5.3 Results of the fishing operations, Tenasserim Coast5.6 The distribution by depth of bottom trawl catches
5.7 The Deep Sea Shrimp Trawling Ground
5.8 Biomass estimates based on catch rates in the bottom trawl
5.9 Analysis of catches of shallow water shrimp
6. Summary of findings and estimates of sustained yields
ANNEX I Scientific and technical staff of the surveys
ANNEX II State of acoustic instruments and conversion of echo-intensity to fish abundance.