Recherches effectuées au cours des croisières de l'ORVET dans la Méditerranée en 1921-1922

This research was undertaken by the Arago Laboratory at Banyuls-sur-Mer, as designated through international agreements signed in Rome and Madrid under the auspices of the Scientific and Technical Office of Maritime Fisheries. Carried out in 1921, the study first consisted of a vertical series of oceanographic measurements (temperature, water samples, plankton samples) that were repeated in a number of stations along two transects: from Port-Vendres to Ajaccio and from Port-Vendres to Mahon, Philippeville [currently known as Skikda, Algeria] and Tunis. The results are briefly summarised in this March 1922 issue of the "Bulletin Océanographique de Monaco". The second half of the oceanographic cruise was devoted to the study of the seafloor and the fauna in the coastal region of Tunisia, between the meridian of Cape Farina and the Kerkennah Islands to the south. This research was conducted to prepare for the cartography of the Tunisian fishing grounds. As a consequence, some instrument lines were deployed and sampling sites and fishing operations (trawl, dredge, bull net) were established along those lines. The results have already been published in the "Bulletin de l'Office des Pêches" (Notes et Mémoires, 8 November 1921 issue). According to the programme drawn up for 1922, the following objectives were proposed:...