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RV Corystes COR5B/90
Cruise summary report
Cruise Info. | |
Ship name (ship code) | RV Corystes (74RY) |
Cruise identifier | COR5B/90 |
Cruise period | 1990-04-14 — 1990-04-27 |
Status | Completed |
Port of departure | Barry, United Kingdom |
Port of return | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
Purpose | Research |
Objectives | To collect ovaries from sole for fecundity estimation and studies on atresia.
To carry out a pre-recruit flatfish survey in the Bristol Channel. To sample bass eggs, larvae and adults and investigate spawning behaviour. To deploy sea surface drifters in a bass spawning focus to follow the dispersal of spawning products. To incubate bass eggs at a range of temperatures for development studies. To carry out a plankton survey in the western English Channel and in the Shingle Bank area to assess the distribution and abundance of edible crab larvae. |
Chief scientist | Michael Gregg Pawson (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
Cruise report | (0.14 MB) |
Ocean/sea areas | |
General | English Channel Bristol Channel |
Specific | Bristol Channel and Western English Channel |
Track charts | |
Measurements | |
Physical oceanography | |
Surface drifters/drifting buoys | Quantity: number of stations = 250 Description: sea surface drifters |
Biology and fisheries | |
Phytoplankton | Quantity: number of stations = 434 |
Zooplankton | Quantity: number of stations = 434 |
Demersal fish | Quantity: number of stations = 53 |