RV Corella 4A/77
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Corella (74CX) |
| Cruise identifier | 4A/77 |
| Cruise period | 1977-02-25 — 1977-03-11 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Grimsby, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Fisheries |
| Objectives | 1. To tag spawning cod off Flamborough.
2. To carry out a simultaneous trawl and acoustic survey of the area off Flamborough using the Granton trawl and the Triton echo-sounding gear. 3. To identify the main acoustic target types in the area by fishing and to describe their behaviour over a 24 hour period. 4. To collect ovaries of cod, plaice, lemon sole and whiting for fecundity work and to collect samples of cod blood. 5. To collect live dabs (15 cm+) and turbot - Dr Htun Han. 6. To freeze a variety of fish samples for use on a fish identification course - Mr Blacker. 7. To collect 6 to 12 live elasmobranchs for tracking work using the sonic tag - Dr Greer Walker. 8. to freeze 20 I-group fish of each gadoid species caught - Mr Child. 9. To collect 2000-5000 live plaice eggs using the 2m stramin net - Mr Thompson. 10. to test the MAFF inductive salinometer. |
| Chief scientist | R G Houghton (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.18 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Track charts |  |
| Measurements | |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Taggings | Quantity: number of specimens = 59 Description: survey:spatial & temporal distribution |
