SURVEYS OF THE FISH RESOURCES OF NAMIBIA
Preliminary Cruise Report No 3
11 September - 6 October 1990












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CRUISE REPORTS “DR. FRIDTJOF NANSEN”

NORAD - FAO/UNDP GLO 82/001

- IMR, Bergen

The "DR. FRIDTJOF NANSEN" RESEARCH PROGRAMME is sponsored by The Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation NORAD, The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO, and the United Nations Development Programme UNDP. The programme in Namibia is being conducted and planned under agreements between UNDP, Namibian authorities and the Institute of Marine Research, Norway. Its execution is the responsibility of the Institute of Marine Research in cooperation with the appointed Namibian representatives.

Preliminary cruise reports were submitted after the completion of each of Surveys 1 and 2. This cruise report describes the work and some of the findings of the third survey.

© FAO 1990

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SURVEYS OF THE FISH RESOURCES OF NAMIBIA. Preliminary Cruise Report No III. 11 September - 6 October 1990

CHAPTER 1. INTODUCTION

1.1 General objectives
1.2 Specific objectives of the third survey
1.3 Participation
1.4 Narrative
1.5 Instruments and fishing gear, observations on trawl geometry

CHAPTER 2. THE ENVIRONMENT

2.1 The shelf and the slope
2.2 Hydrography

CHAPTER 3. OBSERVATIONS ON PILCHARD IN THE CAPE FRIO AREA

CHAPTER 4. RESULTS OF THE FISHING EXPERIMENTS, CATCH COMPOSITIONS AND SWEPT AREA BIOMASS ESTIMATES OF DEMERSAL FISH

4.1 Orange River to St.Francis Bay
4.2 St.Francis Bay to Ambrose Bay
4.3 Ambrose Bay to Cunene River

CHAPTER 5. CONSIDERATION OF THE SURVEY RESULTS

ANNEX I

ANNEX II

ANNEX III