RV Clione CLI1B/74
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Clione (74CN) |
| Cruise identifier | CLI1B/74 |
| Cruise period | 1974-01-09 — 1974-01-18 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Objectives | 1 To tag plaice on the spawning grounds in the German Bight, Southern
Bight and Eastern English Channel. 2. To collect blood, tissue, heart, liver and eye, from plaice in these three areas for an investigation of sub-stock typing systems. 3. To collect samples of stomachs of fish predators of plaice egg and larvae in the Southern Bight (D Tungate). 4. To examine turbot trematodes for ripe proglottides and collect trematode eggs (R Leppington Clarke). |
| Chief scientist | R Colin A Bannister (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.15 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | English Channel North Sea |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Water bottle stations | Quantity: number of stations = 5 Description: 1 with S only Cr. 1B |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Zoobenthos | |
| Pelagic fish | Quantity: number of stations = 2 |
| Demersal fish | Quantity: number of stations = 2 |
| Demersal fish | |
| Taggings | Quantity: number of specimens = 1624 Description: Plaice tagged and released. |
| Taggings | Quantity: number of stations = 29 Description: population structures |
| Meteorology | |
| Routine standard measurements |
