Research vessel. (Photo: Sagarpa)
Thursday, June 05, 2014, 04:10 (GMT + 9)
With 22 researchers on board, the Ship of Oceanographic and Fisheries Research of the National Fisheries Institute (BIPO-INAPESCA) started its first cruise to carry out studies in deep waters of the Mexican Pacific Ocean.
The ship, whose operational base is in the port of Mazatlan, Sinaloa, left for the Gulf of California, where biological studies of fisheries acoustics, exploratory fisheries, physical oceanography, chemistry and biological will be conducted.
Through the fisheries acoustics and control fishing operations, researchers will determine abundance and spatio-temporal variation indexes of species that are susceptible for commercial exploitation. Furthermore, the appropriate capture technology will be defined for the capture of the identified resources.
In this first stage of the research planned by INAPESCA a survey phase is considered, which is consistent with the performance of fisheries exploration cruises through fisheries acoustics for verifying and determining the existence of resources to lay the foundation to promote the development of new sustainable commercial fisheries. This is carried out in the water column as well as at or near the seafloor.
To carry out this research, the research vessel has cutting-edge technology for data collection. It also has a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) that can go down up to two thousand metres deep for sampling, taking photos and making high resolution videos for scientific documentaries.
The researchers who are part of the scientific group in these early research vessels belong to the Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine Sciences of the National Polytechnic Institute (CICIMAR), Centre for Biological Research of the Northwest (CIBNOR), Centre for Scientific Research and Higher Education of Ensenada (CICESE), Autonomous University of Baja California, Sonora University, Institute of Marine Sciences and Limnology of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and the Navy Secretariat, among other institutions.
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