RV Clione CLI2/78
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Clione (74CN) |
| Cruise identifier | CLI2/78 |
| Cruise period | 1978-02-02 — 1978-02-11 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To tag spawning cod in the eastern English Channel, Southern Bight and middle North Sea (migration - Mr Houghton).
2. To collect 15 ripe female and 5 ripe male plaice and return them alive to Lowestoft (genetics - Mr D Thompson). 3. To collect 10 large and preferably spent plaice and return them alive to Lowestoft (fish physiology - Dr M Greer Walker). 4. To collect approx 500 plaice eggs and deliver them to Lowestoft (television film - Mr J Nichols). 5. To obtain length and girth measurements of cod, haddock and whiting in the North Sea and English Channel. (North Sea Roundfish Working Group - Mr C Macer). 6. To freeze a variety of fish specimens and deliver to Lowestoft (Fish Identification Course - Mr R Blacker). |
| Chief scientist | R G Houghton (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.16 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | English Channel North Sea |
| Track charts |  |
| Measurements | |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Taggings | Quantity: number of specimens = 596 |
