MV Resolution
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | MV Resolution (74E8) |
| Cruise period | 1988-09-02 — 1988-09-29 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Fisheries |
| Objectives | 1. To take part in the ICES co-ordinated International Herring Larval Surveys in the Buchan, Orkney-Shetland and west of Scotland areas.
2. To collect surface temperature and salinity data over the three ICES survey aeas. 3. To remove and count all herring and other fish larvae from the plankton samples collected during the surveys. |
| Chief scientist | Paul W Rankine (Scottish Office Agriculture and Fisheries Department Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
| Project | Herring Larval Survey |
| Coordinating body | ICES |
| Cruise report |  (0.10 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Atlantic Ocean North Sea Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland |
| Track charts | (0.03 MB) |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Surface measurements underway (T,S) | Quantity: track kilometres = 7038 |
| Water bottle stations | Quantity: number of stations = 200 Description: T surface only |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Zooplankton | Quantity: 385 |
| Eggs and larvae | Quantity: 385 Description: distribution |
