Mantenimiento de los colectoresprofundos de langosta, obtención de larvas filosomas y filmaciones submarinas con video cebado.

Mantenimiento de los colectoresprofundos de langosta, obtención de larvas filosomas y filmaciones submarinas con video cebado.

1. To obtain estimates of Nephrops burrows densities in the Gulf of Cádiz from a randomized isometric grid of UWTV stations spacing 4 nautical miles using the underwater images. 2. To define the Nephrops distribution in the Gulf of Cádiz 3. To obtain density estimates of megafauna species and the occurrence of trawl marks on the sea bed 4. To measure oceanographic variables using a sledge mounted CTD 5. To prospect circalittoral and bathyal areas witihout trawling activity 6. Sea bed morphological and backscatter analyses

The objective of the CIRCAROCK0521 survey is to obtain the necessary information that will allow “identifying and evaluating the environmental status of circalittoral and rocky bathyal habitats”. The specific objectives that are proposed are: 1. Identify structuring species that characterize rocky circalittoral habitats. 2. Know the distribution of rocky circalittoral habitats. 3. Identify environmental variables involved in the distribution of rocky circalittoral habitats. 3. Compile information that is necessary to calculate the status and condition indicators that allow evaluating the conservation status of the different rocky circalittoral habitats. Additionally, the survey will allow documenting the rocky bottoms of the Cantabrian Sea and the Galician Atlantic coast in order to achieve the following secondary objectives: - Studies with multibeam probe and topas for mapping the rocky bottoms and characterization of the geomorphology of the area. - Document recording video and photo the species that characterize the different rocky circalittoral habitats. - Identify typical species of rocky circalittoral habitats from samples obtained with the rock dredge. - Prepare a catalog of species in which the taxonomy, the visual aspect and different biological and ecological characteristics of the different species are related.

- To obtain estimates of Nephrops densities through underwater videos with photogrammetric sled. - To obtain estimates of Nephrops burrows dendity. - To delimit the distribution of Nephrops in the Gulf of Cádiz. - To obtain estimates of bento-demersal macrofauna density present in the Nephrops fishing ground. - To calibrate bentho-demersal macrofauna observed in the underwater videos and those obtained in the beam trawl. - To prospect non-draggable areas of the circalitoral and batial to know the state of the bottom and the presence of commercial resources. - To gather complementary information on the action of the trawl gear in the seabed. - Oceanographic data collection. - Morphological analysis and acoustic response of the substrate through data acquisition bathymetry and reflectivity, as well as very high resolution seismic profiles of areas already prospected or pending to prospect. - To collect of sediment samples for sedimentological and community characterization of endofauna. - To explore the Portuguese continental margin of the Gulf of Cádiz near the Spanish border in relation to the continuity of the distribution of Nephrops and characterization seabed.

The main objective foreseen in the ECOMARG 2021 campaign, to be carried out on board the R/V Ángeles Alvariño (IEO), is the study of the spatial distribution, structure and dynamics of vulnerable habitats of the ZEC “El Cachucho” (Le Danois Bank and its internal basin) and the head of the nearby Lastres canyon. Specific objectives: • Estimation of the abundance and spatial distribution of the epibenthic communities that characterize the vulnerable habitats present in the area, with special priority for the classified as 1170 Reefs in the DH. • Monitoring of the conservation status of vulnerable habitats and their communities biological, using fixed sampling stations, through indicators of the Red Natura 2000, in accordance with article 17 of the Habitats Directive, applying technical photogrammetric. • Geophysical study of the Lastres and Llanes canyons by obtaining cartography high resolution. • Characterization of the oceanographic dynamics of the BBL (Benthic Boundary Layer - layer near the bottom) in the Gaviera Canyon and in the fixed sampling stations from El Cachucho to know the environmental characteristics of the habitats 1170. • Study of the mobile species (mainly fish, crustaceans, and mollusks) of the Vulnerable habitats present at fixed sampling stations using platforms multiparametric (landers).

1. To obtain estimates of Nephrops burrows densities in the Gulf of Cádiz from a randomized isometric grid of UWTV stations spacing 4 nautical miles using the underwater images. 2. To define the Nephrops distribution in the Gulf of Cádiz 3. To obtain density estimates of bentho-demersal macrofauna species 4. To calibrate bentho-demersal macrofauna observed in the underwater videos and those obtained in the beam trawl. 5. To obtain and the occurrence of trawl marks on the sea bed 6. To measure oceanographic variables using a sledge mounted CTD 7. To collect sediment samples 8. To prospect circalittoral and bathyal areas without trawling activity 9. Sea bed morphological and backscatter analyses

1. To obtain estimates of Nephrops burrows densities in the Gulf of Cádiz from a randomized isometric grid of UWTV stations spacing 4 nautical miles using the underwater images. 2. To define the Nephrops distribution in the Gulf of Cádiz 3. To obtain density estimates of bentho-demersal macrofauna species and the occurrence of trawl marks on the sea bed 4. To calibrate bentho-demersal macrofauna observed in the underwater videos and those obtained in the beam trawl. 5. To measure oceanographic variables using a sledge mounted CTD 6. To prospect circalittoral and bathyal areas without trawling activity

1. To test the sledge TST- HORUS and the methodology based on the identification and quantification of Nephrops burrows in order to estimate the Nephrops abundance using underwater images. 2. To obtain estimates of Nephrops borrows density 3. To obtain estimates of macro benthos density 4. To collect ancillary information on the occurence of trawl marks on sea bed 5. To collect sediment samples 6. To collect biological data on infauna 7. To obtain oceanographic data using a sledge mounted CTD

OBJECTIVES: - Acquisition of underwater videos with TRISION photogrammetric sled. - Obtain density estimates of Norway lobster burrows from underwater images. - Obtain density estimates of species of the megafauna and benthic and demersal macrofauna present in the Norway lobster fishing grounds from underwater images. - Gather complementary information on the action of trawling gear on the bottom and garbage. - Oceanographic data collection. - Taking sediment samples.