Cruise summary report
Cruise Info. | |
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Ship name (ship code) | RV Tellina (74TE) |
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Cruise identifier | 7A/67 |
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Cruise period | 1967-07-27 — 1967-08-16 |
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Status | Completed |
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Port of departure | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
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Port of return | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
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Purpose | Research |
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Objectives | 1. To investigate the distribution and abundance of O-group herring along the English east coast using beach seine and midwater trawls, between approximately
the Farn Islands in the north, and Dungeness in the south.
2. To collect samples of herring from the Wash and Thames estuary for Dr Khalil (Commonwealth Bureau of Helminthology). |
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Chief scientist | R J Wood (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
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Cruise report | (0.14 MB) |
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Ocean/sea areas | |
General | English Channel North Sea |
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Measurements | |
Biology and fisheries | |
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Pelagic fish | Description: trawl and beach-seine for 0-group herring and sprats, several herring were collected |
Geology and geophysics | |
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Single-beam echosounding | |