Cruise Results Fisheries Research Vessel Delaware II, Cruise NO. DE 01-05, Ecosystems Monitoring Survey Leg II

The primary objective of the cruise was to collect standardized samples and data to monitor changing biological and physical properties that influence the sustainable productivity of the living marine resources of the Southern New England, Georges Bank and Gulf of Maine portions of the Northeast Continental Shelf ecosystem. Three secondary objectives of the cruise included: 1. An investigation of overwintering populations of Calanus finmarchicus in the Gulf of Maine to determine their metabolic state and lipid reserves, and to ascertain whether this population is augmented by sources from outside this region. 2. Analysis of phytoplankton samples for nitrogen stable isotope ratios by filtering the discharge water of the flow-through instrumentation at 10 locations on this leg of the survey. 3. Examination of sample jars for the presence of large numbers of Calanus finmarchicus to correlate with right whale sightings received by the Right Whale Sighting Network Coordinator in Woods Hole. 2001 NMFS (National Marine Fisheries Service) NEFSC (Northeast Fisheries Science Center) Submitted Public Domain 1930