RV Corella 4/71
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Corella (74CX) |
| Cruise identifier | 4/71 |
| Cruise period | 1971-02-22 — 1971-03-02 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To carry out a survey of fish eggs and larvae in the Eastern English
Channel and the Southern North Sea. 2. To monitor turbidity, chlorophyll 'A', and temperature continuously in the sea surface water. 3. To release Woodhead seabed drifters at selected positions in the English Channel and Southern North Sea. 4. To echo-survey along the ship's track for fish traces. 5. To measure bottom temperatures and surface salinities for ICES. |
| Chief scientist | D S Tungate (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.18 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | English Channel North Sea |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Bathythermograph | Quantity: number of deployments = 41 Description: mechanical |
| Water bottle stations | Description: T surface only |
| Surface drifters/drifting buoys | Quantity: number of deployments = 1200 Description: bottom drifters |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence) | Quantity: number of stations = 82 |
| Phytoplankton | Quantity: number of stations = 82 |
| Zooplankton | Quantity: number of stations = 82 |
| Eggs and larvae | Quantity: number of stations = 82 |
| Meteorology | |
| Occasional standard measurements | |
| Other meteorological measurements | Description: sea and swell |
