Preliminary Report Cruise No II. - Surveys of the Fish Resources in the Shelf Region between Colombia and Suriname - Part 2: Work off Trinidad and in the Joint Research Area with Venezuela, 23-29 May 1988.
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CRUISE REPORTS “DR FRIDTJOF
NANSEN”
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NORAD - FAO/UNDP GLO 82/001
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IMR, Bergen
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The research programme SURVEYS OF THE FISH RESOURCES IN THE
SHELF REGION FROM COLOMBIA TO SURINAME is sponsored by The Norwegian Agency for
Development Assistance NORAD, The Food and Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations FAO, and the United Nations Development Programme UNDP. The
programme is being planned jointly by the participating countries, FAO’s
Department of Fisheries and the Institute of Marine Research, Norway. Its
execution is the responsibility of the Institute of Marine Research in
cooperation with FAO and national fisheries administrations.The programme will comprise several coverages of the region.
This cruise report describes the work and some of the findings of the first
survey. Full reports will be issued after the completion of the
programme.
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.
1.
Introduction
2. Narrative
3. Hydrography
4. Fish
distribution
5. Fishing
experiments
6. Comparative bottom
trawling
ANNEX 1. DESCRIPTION OF
TRAWL/APENDICE 1. DESCRIPCION DE RED DE ARRASTRE
ANNEX 2. RECORDS OF FISHING
STATIONS
ANNEX 3. POOLED LENGTH DISTRIBUTIONS
OF MAIN SPECIES CAUGHT, TRINIDAD
ANNEX 4. POOLED LENGTH DISTRIBUTIONS OF MAIN SPECIES CAUGHT JOINT RESEARCH AREA FOR TRINIDAD AND VENEZUELA