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FRV Clupea 0390C_1
Cruise summary report
Cruise Info. | |
Ship name (ship code) | FRV Clupea (74CU) |
Cruise identifier | 0390C_1 |
Cruise period | 1990-03-12 — 1990-03-18 |
Status | Completed |
Port of departure | Ardrossan, United Kingdom |
Port of return | Ardrossan, United Kingdom |
Purpose | Research |
Objectives | 1. To make a collection of gonads and fertilise eggs from herring caught on Ballantrae Bank.
2. To set up a trisponder system and to deploy a current meter and time-lapse camera on Ballantrae Bank. 3. To carry out trawling for pre-spawning Clyde herring. 4. To make pre-spawning diving, grab and TV surveys of the Ballantrae Bank spawning ground and to deploy apparatus on the sea bed. |
Chief scientist | John Gamble (Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science) |
Cruise report | (0.06 MB) |
Ocean/sea areas | |
General | Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland |
Specific | Firth of Clyde |
Measurements | |
Physical oceanography | |
Water bottle stations | Quantity: number of stations = 2 Description: reverser stations |
Current meters | Quantity: number of stations = 1 Description: 21 days |
Biology and fisheries | |
Eggs and larvae | Quantity: number of stations = 2 Description: herring eggs |
Geology and geophysics | |
Grab | Quantity: number of stations = 2 Description: grab stations |
Other geological/geophysical measurements | Quantity: number of stations = 2 Description: bottom samples by diver |
Moorings, landers, buoys | |
Physical oceanography | |
Current meters | 55° 7' 0" N 5° 1' 59" W — 21 days record |