RV Clione CLI10/81
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Clione (74CN) |
| Cruise identifier | CLI10/81 |
| Cruise period | 1981-08-12 — 1981-08-26 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To aid CORELLA in the survey of spawning herring concentrations off the Yorkshire coast and in the vicinity of the Farne Islands.
2. To make in-situ target strength measurements and to identify the traces by fishing. 3. By use of the sector scanner, observe the behaviour of herring to the passage of CORELLA and the towed transducer. 4. To make comparative side-by-side measurements on fish concentrations using acoustic frequencies of 30 and 38kHz in sequence. 5. To assess the performance of the Simrad QD echo-integrator and the Furumo colour display. |
| Chief scientist | Ronald B Mitson (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.14 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea Irish Sea and St. George's Channel |
| Specific | North Sea (Central) |
| Track charts |  |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| CTD stations | Quantity: number of stations = 2 |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Demersal fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 6 |
| Acoustic reflection on marine organisms. | Quantity: number of measurements = 26 Description: echo survey |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Long/short range side scan sonar | Quantity: number of stations = 5 |
