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FRV Clupea 0673C
Cruise summary report
Cruise Info. | |
Ship name (ship code) | FRV Clupea (74CU) |
Cruise identifier | 0673C |
Cruise period | 1973-05-28 — 1973-06-22 |
Status | Completed |
Port of departure | Buckie, United Kingdom |
Port of return | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
Purpose | Trials |
Objectives | 1. To conduct a comparative fishing experiment for Nephrops norvegicus using a 9m beam trawl with electric ticklers and twin cod-ends. Each side of the net was rigged with a set of electrodes in contact with the bottom, only one set being energised at a time. The net was divided from the beam back to the codends.
2. To continue experiments on the response of N. norvegicus to electric fields using underwater TV. Observations with the TV system were made in Loch Shell and Loch Torridon. |
Chief scientist | Peter A M Stewart (Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
Cruise report | (0.07 MB) |
Ocean/sea areas | |
General | Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland |
Specific | North Minch, Lewis, Sound of Raasay, Gairloch. |