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RV Corystes COR12/97
Cruise summary report
Cruise Info. | |
Ship name (ship code) | RV Corystes (74RY) |
Cruise identifier | COR12/97 |
Cruise period | 1997-11-21 — 1997-12-10 |
Status | Completed |
Port of departure | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
Port of return | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
Purpose | Media |
Objectives | 1. To enable a BBC team to film tag deployment and fish tracking for "Tomorrow's World". The visit of the BBC team was postponed at short notice, so this aim was not attempted.
2. To estimate swimming speed and orientation of migrating plaice by simultaneous use of the sector scanning sonar and ADCP. 3. To assess the precision of geographical location using data storage tags in conjunction with the POL tidal model. |
Chief scientist | Geoffrey P Arnold (Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science Lowestoft Laboratory) |
Cruise report | (0.10 MB) |
Ocean/sea areas | |
General | North Sea |
Specific | Southern North Sea |
Track charts | (0.01 MB) |
Measurements | |
Physical oceanography | |
Current meters | Quantity: number of deployments = 1 Description: A current meter rig was deployed allowing data for the storage tag programme to be collected. |
Biology and fisheries | |
Demersal fish | Quantity: number of specimens = 6 Description: The 6 tagged fish released in the earlier survey were recaptured. Fish 5 however escaped all attempts of capture. |
Demersal fish | Quantity: number of specimens = 6 Description: Fish were observed for their movement in the tides. Observations found were to be different for every fish. |