Cruise summary report
Cruise Info. | |
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Ship name (ship code) | RV Corella (74CX) |
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Cruise identifier | 13/75 |
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Cruise period | 1975-09-04 — 1975-09-17 |
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Status | Completed |
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Port of departure | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
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Port of return | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
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Purpose | Research |
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Objectives | 1. To carry out a survey for herring larvae in the vicinity of the Orkney and Shetland Islands, as part of an international survey of the abundance and distribution of autumn-spawned herring larvae in the North Sea and adjacent waters.
2. To continue the examination of the distribution of caesium-137 and caesium-134 in coastal waters of the British Isles.
3. To obtain Plankton Indicator samples for the Institute for Marine Environmental Research, Edinburgh. |
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Chief scientist | R J Wood (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
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Cruise report | (0.15 MB) |
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Ocean/sea areas | |
General | North Sea Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland |
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Track charts | |
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Measurements | |
Physical oceanography | |
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Water bottle stations | Quantity: number of stations = 50 |
Chemical oceanography | |
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Radioactivity | Quantity: number of samples = 56 |
Biology and fisheries | |
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Eggs and larvae | Quantity: number of samples = 161 |
Gear research | Quantity: number of hauls = 5 Description: Tow-net calibration |