Oceanographic cruise - CGFS (Channel Ground Fish Survey) - Channel North Sea

CGFS cruise aims to collect basic data to estimate the status of fisheries resources, by direct assessment of stock abundance and distribution, along with biological sampling of commercial catches.

The CGFS campaign is carried out within the framework of this programme in the European project Contractualisation of Basic Fishery Data Collection (DCF). The abundance indices collected during this campaign are used by the ICES international working group "Demersal fisheries of the North Sea, Eastern Channel and Skagerrak" and complement the data from the English "Beam Trawl Survey" for the "Flatfish" working group.