One of the important steps in the catch processing is fish measurement. We measure all fins species 'to the cm below', meaning that all fish from 8 to 9 cm is '8 cm', and from 9 to 10 '9 cm', etc. The idea is to retrieve a length-frequency by species. But what do we do when the catch is too big to measure everything within the available time?
vangst op één van de stations in de Moray Firth/catch on one of the stations in the Moray Firth |
De vangst op de foto bevatte meet dan 750 scharren en iets meer dan 700 schollen, In plaats van een kleine 1500 vissen te meten, maten we 1/8 van de scharren (97) en 1/8 van de schollen (88). In de volgende trek hadden we nog meer scharren, dus daarvan hebben we 1/16 van het totaal gemeten. Het aantal schollen was wel ongeveer gelijk aan de trek ervoor, dus daarvan maten we 1/8 deel.
When it is too much to measure, we subsample, Subsampling is possible by weight, but also by fraction. We split the catch into two equal parts and, if necessary, we split one of the parts again in two, and again, and again.... the minimum number of fish to measure is 50 per species. If the catch contains a few large specimens of a certain species and (too) many smaller, we measure all the large ones and subsample the smaller fish.
The catch on the picture contained more than 750 dab and more than 700 plaice. Instead of measuring a little less than 1500 fish, we measured 97 dab and 88 plaice of the subsample (1/8 of the total). The next haul contained even more dab (subsample 1/16).
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