Первая экспедиция керченских рыбаков в Атлантический океан и начало океанических исследований АзЧерНИРО
The research of the World Ocean food resources commenced in 1958, when the scientists of AzCherNIRO (currently the Kerch Branch «YugNIRO» of FSBSI «AzNIIRKH») started the first Ukrainian fishery expedition into the Central Eastern Atlantic (CEA). The expedition consisted of three vessels: large refrigerator freezer trawler «Zhukovsky», medium fishing trawler «Grot» (a research vessel, which belonged to AzCherNIRO), and large Black Sea seiner «Zatvor». In order to investigate food resources of the Eastern Atlantic, a scientific group including 6 ichthyologists, hydrobiologists and oceanologists joined the expedition crew. The expedition program had been developed and approved in VNIRO (Moscow, Russia). It was scheduled to carry out fishing works on the shelf of Africa from the Strait of Gibraltar to the port of Capetown. For the first time, those works were performed during autumn-winter (Northern Hemisphere). Earlier, no Soviet fishing vessel had been conducting fisheries during that period; the fishing areas had also been unknown. The expedition set off from Kerch on October 16, 1958. Its principal task was to implement the catch plan, which was performed prior to the schedule. This led to the reduction of both fishing areas and scientific investigations scope. However, altogether 48 oceanographic stations were performed; data on hydrology and hydrochemistry were obtained; samples of plankton, benthos, and ground types were collected; materials for further research of fish nutrition, age, population structure and histological analyses were prepared. Exhibits of the tropic fauna enriched not only the AzCherNIRO museum collections, but also those of numerous institutions and universities. Fish catches exceeded the plan by 27 %; totally, 825 t of fish was processed. All the vessels got back to Kerch on February 14, 1959. The expedition confirmed good fish stocks in the shelf waters off Western Africa and proved that in the CEA it could be feasible to conduct very efficient trawl and purse fishing during the whole year. The expedition results were used as essential basis for further large-scale Soviet fisheries in this area and planning of oceanic research in AzCherNIRO.
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| Format: | Journal Contribution biblioteca |
| Language: | Russian |
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2017
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| Subjects: | Historical account, Fishery expeditions, Fishery institutions, Fish catch statistics, Fishing vessels, Research vessels, Commercial species, Trawlers, Seine fishing, Purse fishing, |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1834/11022 |
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