Soela Voyage SO 3/84 Biological Data Overview

This record is an overview entry for biological data collected on Soela cruise SO 3/84. This cruise took place in Tasmanian waters and the Bass Strait during 14 June - 12 July 1984, under the leadership of T. Kenchington and Brian Griffiths. Biological data collected on this cruise include demersal and mesopelagic fish samples from trawling. Blue grenadier samples from the west coast of Tasmania (fish more than 60 cm length of this species seemed close to spawning). Stomachs, gonads, tissue samples for electrophoresis and fish for morphometric analysis. Large quantities of zooplankton samples, particularly euphausids. Acoustic data to aid development of a potential recording system for the scattering layers. Length-frequency data obtained by subsampling. Blood smears from a variety of fish species (for Plymouth Polytechnic). Biological data from a wide variety of sharks. Cephalopod, crustacean and other invertebrate samples for identification and further study (Victoria Museum). Samples of Lampanyctodes for oil content analysis (University of Tasmania and CSIRO Division of Food Research). Observations on seabirds, and on approximately 30 humpback whales and 3 killer whales.(derived from the cruise report) - Biological Field Data Sheets recorded during this voyage have been scanned to PDF, and are available (to CSIRO Staff) on-line. See the details link under "Stored Media List" (below).