RV Clione CLI1/69
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Clione (74CN) |
| Cruise identifier | CLI1/69 |
| Cruise period | 1969-01-14 — 1969-01-18 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | To collect:
1. Live ripe plaice and floundry for hatchery work. 2. Sandeels for fish behaviour studies. 3. Elasmobranch sera for Chester Beatty Institute of Cancer Research. Elasmobranch sera and a few samples of cod blood were collected at most stations |
| Chief scientist | Colin E Purdom (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.08 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Specific | Rye Bay, north and south of the Brown Ridges, Rising Ground, Smiths Knoll, Wells Bank |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Water bottle stations | Quantity: sample kilograms = 32000 Description: Offshore seawater collected in the forward ballast tanks as an emergency supply for the laboratory. 3 dozen carboys of offshore water were also collected |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Demersal fish | Quantity: activity duration in hours = 1 Description: 5 trawls made in Rye Bay, 2 trawls south of the Brown Ridges, 3 trawls north of the Brown Ridges, 3 trawls on the Rising Ground, 2 trawls south of the Wells Bank |
| Demersal fish | Quantity: number of specimens = 12 Description: Fish obtained from Rye Bay and one ripe female plaice from the Rising ground |
