RV Clione CLI11/82
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Clione (74CN) |
| Cruise identifier | CLI11/82 |
| Cruise period | 1982-08-18 — 1982-08-31 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To make acoustic surveys of spawning herring concentrations off the Yorkshire coast and pre-spawning concentrations elsewhere in the Central North Sea, using a towed body in conjunction with the echo integrators.
2. To obtain samples of adult herring from the central North Sea for age and fecundity analysis. 3. To make hauls with the 20 inch high-speed plankton sampler in the Longstone area, in order to identify herring spawning sites more precisely. |
| Chief scientist | R J Wood (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.18 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea Irish Sea and St. George's Channel |
| Specific | North Sea |
| Track charts |  |
| Measurements | |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Eggs and larvae | Quantity: number of stations = 20 Description: sampled with the high-speed plankton sampler for herring larvae. |
| Pelagic fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 13 |
