Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
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| Ship name (ship code) | RV Clione (74CN) |
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| Cruise identifier | CLI6A/74 |
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| Cruise period | 1974-04-16 — 1974-05-01 |
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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 conduct a pre-dredge survey of Licence Area 260 using the ARL Scanner.
2. To conduct a grab survey of the benthic fauna. |
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| Chief scientist | Robert R Dickson (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
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| Cruise report | (0.12 MB) |
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| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea Irish Sea and St. George's Channel |
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| Track charts | |
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| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
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| Optics (eg underwater light levels) | Quantity: number of deployments = 3 Description: spectroradiometer |
| Biology and fisheries | |
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| Zoobenthos | Description: active bottom living fauna; agassiz trawl-3 tows of 15 mins.duration |
| Taggings | Description: fish behaviour with acoustic tags |
| Geology and geophysics | |
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| Dredge | Quantity: number of deployments = 10 |
| Grab | Quantity: number of samples = 77 |
| Multi-beam echosounding | |