Natura 2000 Intenational Doggerbank survey 2016@en

An international team comprising scientists from UK (2), The Netherlands (1) and Germany (6) took part in a fisheries survey in the Doggerbank area in the North Sea covering the trinational Doggerbank Natura 2000 MPA as well as a small section of the Danish EEZ. 34 hauls were sampled during WH396. 20 hauls were sampled in the UK part of the Doggerbank, 9 hauls in the Dutch, 4 in the German part and 1 in the Danish sector, respectively. 41 CTD casts were deployed, 7 extra stations and 34 casts in combination with the hauls. The video test was run in the German sector. Small fish sampling by means of dredge sampling and beam trawls was not undertaken due to time constraints. […]