The research vessel “Dr. Fridtjof Nansen” is scheduled to undertake several fishery resources surveys in the North Arabian Sea during 1983-84. These investigations are part of the UNDP/FAO Global Programme GLO/82/001.
The first cruise in Pakistani waters under this programme was carried out in September 1983. The survey programme included acoustical survey for the purpose of mapping fish distribution and abundance estimation, trawling for identification of echo recordings, biological sampling and hydrographic observations.
“Dr. Fridtjof Nansen” carried out similar surveys in Pakistani waters during the North Arabian Sea Programme in 1975-76 and during the Joint NORAD/Pakistan Project from January to June 1971. The results from these investigations have been presented in cruise reports as well as in summary reports.
The present survey was carried out during the period 19 January to 2 February 1984. Cruise tracks and the stations worked out appear in Figure 1.
The scientific staff consisted of the following:
From Institute of Marine Research, Bergen, Norway:
Roald Sætre - cruise leaderFrom Marine Fisheries Department, Karachi, Pakistan:
Sigmund Myklevoll
Magnus Johannessen
Helge Abrahamsen
Tore Mørk
S.M. Zafar ImamAdditionally, Kent Forssgren from the University of Stockholm, Sweden participated in the cruise with the task to study the distribution, species composition and abundance of the sea bird stock off Pakistan.
Anis Imad
Rizwan Ahmed
Mohammed Habib ur Raza
Parallel trawling with the Pakistani vessel “Machera” for intercalibration purpose were carried out on two occasions (Fishing Station Nos. 51-52-53-54 and 69-70).
