Title Anchovy Recruitment Survey on the Africana Voyage 092, May 1991
Authors

Ian Hampton
Oceans and Coastal Research, Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries (DFFE), South Africa

Publisher Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (2024)
Contributors

Project Leader: Gavin Tutt
Oceans and Coastal Research, Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE), email: gtsglider@gmail.com

Project Leader: Tarron Lamont
Oceans and Coastal Research, Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE), email: tarron.lamont@gmail.com

Abstract The Anchovy Pilchard Recruitment Survey on the Africana Voyage 092 was conducted on the 7 to the 24 May 1991. The main objectives of the cruise were to estimate the abundance and size-structure of anchovy; a description of the distribution and behaviour patterns of anchovy and pilchard of recruits and the oceanographic variables on these; a collection of biological data on pelagic fish species; an examination of the distribution, abundance and production of plankton in relation to the environment and to recruit distribution and condition; an examination of feeding ecology and food selection of pilchard recruits; an investigation of the vertical distribution and behaviour of feeding juvenile hake in relation to their food environment; an examination of the feasibility of mackerel collecting live horse with the midwater trawl, and of keeping them alive on board and the retrieval of a current meter mooring off Hondeklip Bay.
Data
Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Temporal extent 07 May 1990 – 24 May 1990
Geographic extent

North: -28.5
South: -35.5
West: 16.0
East: 20.0

Keywords Africana, Africana 092, sailing orders
Related resources
  • Digital objects included in this collection:
    • Processed CTD continuous observations from the Anchovy Recruitment Survey on the Africana Voyage 092, May 1991 (10.15493/DEA.MIMS.16072024)
    • Processed CTD discrete observations from the Anchovy Recruitment Survey on the Africana Voyage 092, May 1991 (10.15493/DEA.MIMS.17072024)