RV Clione CLI8/73
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Clione (74CN) |
| Cruise identifier | CLI8/73 |
| Cruise period | 1973-05-08 — 1973-05-18 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To collect mature turbot and return them live to the laboratory.
2. To artificially fertilise turbot eggs at sea, returning live eggs to the laboratory. 3. To collect turbot and brill gills and guts for parasite studies. 4. To collect live plaice and dabs. 5. To examine the relationship between chlorophyll; phaeopigment ratios and the standing stock of herbivorous zooplankton. 6. To collect heads and gonads of dabs and plaice for histological examination. To collect pituitaries from dabs, plaice and cod. 7. To collect small fish as food for laboratory stocks of turbot and halibut. |
| Chief scientist | A Jones (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.15 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Measurements | |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence) | Quantity: number of stations = 17 |
| Phytoplankton | Quantity: number of stations = 17 |
| Zooplankton | Quantity: number of stations = 17 |
| Pelagic fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 37 Description: trawling for flatfish for lab.hatching studies |
| Demersal fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 37 Description: trawling for flatfish for lab.hatching studies |
