FRV Clupea 0792C
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | FRV Clupea (74CU) |
| Cruise identifier | 0792C |
| Cruise period | 1992-04-30 — 1992-05-06 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Ardrossan, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Ardrossan, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To collect seawater samples from the Garroch Head sewage sludge disposal site, and from areas adjacent to the disposal site, for microbiological analysis.
2. To collect seawater samples from the Garroch Head sewage sludge disposal site, and from areas adjacent to the disposal site, for measurement of suspended solids. 3. To undertake an echosounder survey, supplemented by transmissometer profiles; before, during and following a sewage sludge dumping operation. 4. To collect seabed sediment samples from the Garroch Head sewage sludge disposal site, from areas adjacent to the disposal site and from the sewage sludge disposal site prior to 1974, for microbiological analysis. 5. To collect seabed sediment samples from the Garroch Head sewage disposal site, from areas adjacent to the disposal site and from the the sewage sludge disposal site used prior to 1974, for chemical analysis in the Marine Laboratory, Aberdeen. 6. To undertake a trawl survey at, and in the vicinity of, the Garroch Head sewage sludge disposal site, to collect samples of representative species for chemical analysis in the Marine Laboratory, Aberdeen. |
| Chief scientist | Derek Saward (Scottish Office Agriculture and Fisheries Department Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.09 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland |
| Specific | Firth of Clyde, Garroch Head |
| Track charts |  |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Transparency (eg transmissometer) | |
| Contamination | |
| Suspended matter | Quantity: number of stations = 20 |
| Trace metals | |
| Chlorinated hydrocarbons | |
| Contaminants in organisms | Quantity: number of hauls = 9 Description: trawls |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Benthic bacteria/micro-organisms | |
| Demersal fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 9 |
| Crustaceans | Quantity: number of hauls = 9 Description: using BT116 trawl, with representative samples of Nephrops retained. |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Grab | Quantity: number of samples = 46 Description: day grab |
| Core - soft bottom | Quantity: number of cores = 22 |
