RV Corella 2/78
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Corella (74CX) |
| Cruise identifier | 2/78 |
| Cruise period | 1978-01-25 — 1978-02-06 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To carry out an acoustic integrator survey for sprat within an area
between the Farne Islands and Wash, extending up to 50 miles off the coast. 2. To sample any major concentrations located with mid-water trawl and plot their distributions in finer detail. 3. To collect various species of fish (particularly sprat, small herring and small gadoids) deep-frozen for fish identification courses (Mr R W Blacker). |
| Chief scientist | P O Johnson (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.20 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Track charts |  |
| Measurements | |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Pelagic fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 7 |
| Acoustic reflection on marine organisms. | Quantity: track kilometres = 2407.6 Description: distribution studies |
