Surveys on the Marine Fish Resources of Bangladesh - November - December 1979 and May 1980

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by

Roald Sætre

Institute of marine Research, Bergen
March 1981

Reports on surveys with the R/V Dr Fridtjof Nansen.

«Dr. Fridtjof Nansen» The fishery research vessel «Dr. Fridtjof Nansen» longs to the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD). It was designed and built for scientific and exploratory investigations of fishery resources of developing countries, under a joint plan with the Fisheries Department of FAO based on a funding of operation to be shared by FAO and Norway. The first six years of operation have include a survey of the pelagic fish resources of the NW Arabian Sea (1975-76), and of the coastal fish resources of Pakistan, Mozambique, Sri Lanka and Burma (1977-79), and finally those of Bangladesh described in this report. The Institute of Marine Research, Bergen is under a subcontract with NORAD responsible for the operation of the vessel, and the various research programmes were planned and conducted jointly with the relevant fisheries research organizations in the countries concerned. Results of the previous surveys have been reported on in a number of cruise- and progress reports under each programme.

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Table of Contents

1. INTRODUCTION

2. METHODS

3. SURVEY RESULTS

3.1 Bottom conditions
3.2 Hydrography
3.3 The fishing experiments
3.4 Fish distribution and species composition
3.5 Abundance

4. REFERENCES

APPENDIX I (Cruise report - Nov.-Dec. 1979)

1. INTRODUCTION
2. METHODS
3. SURVEY RESULTS

3.1 Bottom conditions
3.2 Hydrography
3.3 Plankton
3.4 The fishing experiments
3.5 Fish distribution and species composition
3.6 Abundance

4. REFERENCES
APPENDIX A. Records of fishing operation
APPENDIX B. Length distributions

APPENDIX II - (Cruise report - May 1980)

1. INTRODUCTION
2. METHODS
3. SURVEY RESULTS

3.1 Bottom conditions
3.2 Hydrography
3.3 Plankton
3.4 The fishing experiments
3.5 Fish distribution and species composition
3.6 Abundance

4. REFERENCES
APPENDIX A. Records of fishing operation
APPENDIX B. Length distributions