A Survey of Mesopelagic Fish Resources in the Gulf of Oman and the Gulf of Aden, July - August 1979

Table of Contents

by
Jakob Gjøsæter and Bjørn Myrseth

REPORTS ON SURVEYS WITH R/V "DR. FRIDTJOF NANSEN"

University of Bergen
Department of Fisheries Biology

This 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.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

NARRATIVE

SURVEY RESULTS

BEHAVIOUR AND SPECIES COMPOSITION

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATES BASED ON TRAWL CATCHES

COMPARISONS WITH PREVIOUS CRUISES

SEASONAL VARIATION

TRAWL EXPERIMENTS

TECHNOLOGICAL WORK WITH BENTHOSEMA PTEROTUM