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Steuer Ad., 1935. The fishery grounds near Alexandria. I Preliminary report. Notes and Memoirs No 8, Fisheries Research Directorate, Egypt
Citation
Irini Tsikopoulou and Stamatina Nikolopoulou (2016). Digitization of The fishery grounds near Alexandria. I Preliminary report. Notes and Memoirs No 8, Fisheries Research Directorate, 1935, Egypt https://doi.org/10.15468/8opumj
Contact:
Tsikopoulou, Irini
Availability: 
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To the extent possible under law, the person who associated CC0 with this dataset has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this dataset.Description
This digitized historical paper contains information about the floristical and faunistical survey of the coasts near Alexandria (Egypt) including lake Edku, lake Mareotis and Suez canal that was made by Adolf Steuer in summer and autumn of 1933. It contains specific information and description of the sampling protocol that was followed, for the collection of plankton and benthos. It is also contains detailed description of the habitats and the bionomic division at Alexandria and contains three charts that show the location of benthic and planktonic stations. The digitization of this report was made by LifewatchGreece team. more
Sampling Methods: In general, all excursions were one-day trip. The motor-launch of the Marine Laboratory "El Hoot" about 15 meters long was used for dredging. The isobath of 200 meters was surpassed only at a few points. A rowing boat in shallow water and during favorable conditions was also used. For excursions along the coast, near Rosetta, Lake Mariout and Lake Edku the motor car of the Laboratory was used. For plankton samples only medium sized nets with celluloid buckets with gauze bottom were available. 19 stations were sampled for plankton once or several times. For bottom samples almost exclusively a dredge with 20x70 cm opening was used. A single catch was made in a depth of 20 m with a large otter trawl in the eastern part of the Bay of Abukir. Almost 150 stations were bottom sampled.
Sampling Methods: In general, all excursions were one-day trip. The motor-launch of the Marine Laboratory "El Hoot" about 15 meters long was used for dredging. The isobath of 200 meters was surpassed only at a few points. A rowing boat in shallow water and during favorable conditions was also used. For excursions along the coast, near Rosetta, Lake Mariout and Lake Edku the motor car of the Laboratory was used. For plankton samples only medium sized nets with celluloid buckets with gauze bottom were available. 19 stations were sampled for plankton once or several times. For bottom samples almost exclusively a dredge with 20x70 cm opening was used. A single catch was made in a depth of 20 m with a large otter trawl in the eastern part of the Bay of Abukir. Almost 150 stations were bottom sampled.
Scope
Themes:
Biology > Benthos, Biology > Plants
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Data, man-powered small boat, Marine Genomics, self-propelled boat, MED, Egypt, Arab Rep., Alexandria, Amphipoda, Ascidiacea, Cirripedia, Cumacea, Decapoda, Echinodermata, Hydroida, Isopoda, Mollusca, Pantopoda, Polychaeta, Sipunculidea, Tanaidacea
Geographical coverage
MED, Egypt, Arab Rep., Alexandria [Marine Regions]
Temporal coverage
April 1933 - November 1933
Taxonomic coverage
Parameter
Species diversity macro-invertebrates
Contributors
Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR), more, data creator
Nikolopoulou, Stamatina
University of Crete
Tsikopoulou, Irini
Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field experiment
Metadatarecord created: 2018-07-27
Information last updated: 2022-08-03
