RV Cirolana CIR3B/73
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Cirolana (74CZ) |
| Cruise identifier | CIR3B/73 |
| Cruise period | 1973-03-13 — 1973-04-04 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Greenock, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Grimsby, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To survey the southern Barents Sea for codling.
2. To sample nanoplankton. 3. To record activity from the cod pineal. 4. To collect endocrine glands from a number of fish species. |
| Chief scientist | David H Cushing (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.20 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Barents Sea North Atlantic Ocean North Sea Norwegian Sea |
| Specific | 54-00N;04-00W to 73-00N;39-00E |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Water bottle stations | Quantity: number of stations = 32 Description: T bottom 62 T surface |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence) | Quantity: activity duration in days = 15 Description: chlorophyll determined by Turner fluorometer (continuous) |
| Phytoplankton | Quantity: number of samples = 5 |
| Pelagic fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 16 |
| Demersal fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 16 |
| Other biological/fisheries measurement | Description: deep scattering layers |
| Meteorology | |
| Occasional standard measurements | |
| Other meteorological measurements | Description: sea and swell |
