2011 - 2011 Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science (Cefas) Cuttlefish Diversification (Inshore) 2011/12 - Fisheries Science Partnership

To explore gear configurations that could improve selectivity in the current fishery and collect information on the catches, including associated species caught, that would help inform managers on management of the resource in future. The survey was carried out over 10 days during November 2011, sailing out of Plymouth. The area of operation for the survey was ICES Area VIIe off the South Devon coast The survey was carried out on board the FV Ocean Spirit (Figure 2), a steel-hulled trawler of 11.95 m registered length with a 220 kW engine.