On this final day of sampling, we found ourselves back up north…farther north than before. It seems that every day we steam north to start the sampling. The reason for this is to keep up with the migration of the salmon post-smolts. They are funneling along the shelf here off of the Voering Plateau moving [...]
Explorers Club Flag #81 at 68 degrees North
One thing I find interesting on this cruise is that we only sample in so-called daytime hours. Despite the fact that we are above the Arctic Circle and have 24 hours of sunlight, the fish still sense the change in time of day. It is not the darkness that determines the fish behavior but the [...]
In the early morning (0330), We reached the anticipated northernmost point of the cruise, 67.5°N, the starting point for the sampling. The cruise plan was to head to this point and see what we find. If we found a large number of salmon, we would continue north. So with a CTD done and a plankton [...]