CGFS2022

Type Oceanographic cruise
Set This cruise is part of the set CGFS : CHANNEL GROUND FISH SURVEY
Ship Thalassa
Ship owner Ifremer
Dates 15/09/2022 - 19/10/2022
Chief scientist(s) GIRALDO Carolina ORCID, LE ROY Didier, MARTIN-BAILLET Victor

HALIEUTIQUE MANCHE MER DU NORD - BOULOGNE-SUR-MER

Centre Ifremer Manche Mer du Nord

150 quai Gambetta

62200 Boulogne-sur-Mer

+33 (0)3 21 99 56 00

https://manchemerdunord.ifremer.fr/

DOI 10.17600/18001842
Objective

The Channel is an area with a strong fisheries influence, mainly for the coastal countries but also more widely for the countries of Northern Europe. The ecological and economic impact of the exploitation of fisheries resources must be measured so that fishing remains a sustainable activity, taking into account the limits of the resource and its effect on the environment. To meet this need, EU Member States need to carry out scientific surveys at sea to assess the abundance and distribution of stocks, independently of data from commercial fisheries. To this end, the CGFS (Channel Ground Fish Survey) cruises serie is part of the European Fisheries Monitoring Programme, which provides a set of data on exploited stocks (maturity, size/age structure, recruitment indices). The time series initiated in 1988 is used annually by European stock assessment groups to infer the health of the main commercial species. Initially focused on the Eastern Channel, the CGFS now aims to cover the whole Channel to provide fishery-independent data in the Western area as well. The CGFS 2022 campaign left Brest on 16 September to collect fishery-independent data for the assessment of living marine resources in the Channel using large vertical opening bottom trawls (GOV). For 33 days, 119 30-minute hauls were made during the day. Carried out on the N/O Thalassa, the CGFS campaign also enabled sampling and better knowledge of the entire ecosystem, and the implementation of an ecosystem approach to fisheries at Community level. Thus, the physico-chemical characteristics of the water, the phytoplankton and zooplankton communities, the abundance of fish eggs and the specific composition of nekton communities were measured and analysed throughout the campaign. The benthic fauna and top predators were also observed. The campaign made it possible to study the different types of waste and the structure of the habitat. The validated data will be transmitted at the end of the campaign to the national (SIH, Harmonie, Coriolis) and European (DATRAS) databases, which will allow their use by different working groups and will ensure public access to these data.

 

Data managed by SISMER

Bibliography

Publications

ICES (2022). Herring Assessment Working Group for the area south of 62° N (HAWG). ICES Scientific Reports/Rapports scientifiques du CIEM, 4(16), 745pp. Publisher's official version : https://doi.org/10.17895/ices.pub.10072 , Open Access version : https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00877/98908/


References of Technical Reports

Curd AmeliaORCID, Droual GabinORCID, Le Moigne Morgan (2023). CLEANATLANTIC. Investigation of seafloor litter for the presence of Non-Indigenous Species during French annual fisheries surveys in the North Sea, English Channel, Celtic Sea and Bay of Biscay 2021-2022. WP 5.5: Evaluation of marine litter as transport facilitator. https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00887/99879/


Régimbart AmélieORCID (2023). Bilan de l’optimisation des campagnes halieutiques réalisée dans le cadre du programme de surveillance de la directive cadre stratégie pour le milieu marin (DCSMM) - année 2022. Rapport scientifique, Ifremer ODE/VIGIES/DCSMM, 40p. https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00834/94623/


Le Roy Didier, Martin-Baillet Víctor, Giraldo CarolinaORCID (2023). Compte-rendu de la campagne CGFS 2022 sur le N/O Thalassa / Preliminary Survey Report CGFS 2022 R/V Thalassa. RBE-HALGO-LBH/RBE-HMMN-LRHPB/RBE-HMMN-LRHBL. https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00827/93927/


Le Gac Romane (2023). Participation à l’évaluation des impacts anthropiques sur les communautés benthiques côtières au LEBCO. Rapport d’alternance de licence professionnelle Technicien Supérieur Sciences Halieutiques. Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale.