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RV Cirolana CIR1/86
Cruise summary report
Cruise Info. | |
Ship name (ship code) | RV Cirolana (74CZ) |
Cruise identifier | CIR1/86 |
Cruise period | 1986-01-03 — 1986-01-23 |
Status | Completed |
Port of departure | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
Port of return | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
Purpose | Research |
Objectives | 1. To undertake an acoustic survey of pelagic shoals in the English Channel.
2. To identify pelagic fish shoals by trawling and to take biological samples. 3. To tag bass. 4. To trawl for female plaice and study the physiology and endoncrinology of sexual maturation. |
Chief scientist | Stephen J Lockwood (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
Cruise report | (0.14 MB) |
Ocean/sea areas | |
General | English Channel |
Specific | English Channel and Brittany Peninsula |
Track charts | |
Measurements | |
Physical oceanography | |
Surface measurements underway (T,S) | Quantity: activity duration in days = 21 Description: thermograph record |
Other physical oceanographic measurements | Description: acoustic stations |
Biology and fisheries | |
Pelagic fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 7 |
Demersal fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 20 |