RV Corella 13/75
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Corella (74CX) |
| Cruise identifier | 13/75 |
| Cruise period | 1975-09-04 — 1975-09-17 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To carry out a survey for herring larvae in the vicinity of the Orkney and Shetland Islands, as part of an international survey of the abundance and distribution of autumn-spawned herring larvae in the North Sea and adjacent waters.
2. To continue the examination of the distribution of caesium-137 and caesium-134 in coastal waters of the British Isles. 3. To obtain Plankton Indicator samples for the Institute for Marine Environmental Research, Edinburgh. |
| Chief scientist | R J Wood (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.15 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland |
| Track charts |  |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Water bottle stations | Quantity: number of stations = 50 |
| Chemical oceanography | |
| Radioactivity | Quantity: number of samples = 56 |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Eggs and larvae | Quantity: number of samples = 161 |
| Gear research | Quantity: number of hauls = 5 Description: Tow-net calibration |
