RV Clione CLI6/81
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Clione (74CN) |
| Cruise identifier | CLI6/81 |
| Cruise period | 1981-04-29 — 1981-05-12 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To carry out a TTN survey for sole eggs throughout the English Channel.
2. To fish for spawning sole at several spawning centres for tagging. 3. To return 10 live female sole to the Laboratory for reproductive studies (Witthames). |
| Chief scientist | R G Houghton (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.11 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | English Channel North Sea Irish Sea and St. George's Channel Bay of Biscay |
| Specific | English Channel |
| Track charts |  |
| Measurements | |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Phytoplankton | Quantity: number of stations = 98 Description: TTN stations completed. |
| Zooplankton | Quantity: number of stations = 98 Description: TTN stations completed. |
| Demersal fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 17 Description: population structures |
| Taggings | Quantity: number of specimens = 195 Description: 193 Dover soles and 2 sand soles were tagged. |
