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FRV Clupea 0589C_1
Cruise summary report
Cruise Info. | |
Ship name (ship code) | FRV Clupea (74CU) |
Cruise identifier | 0589C_1 |
Cruise period | 1989-04-17 — 1989-04-29 |
Status | Completed |
Port of departure | Troon, United Kingdom |
Port of return | Troon, United Kingdom |
Purpose | Research |
Objectives | 1. To carry out a grab survey on Ballantrae Bank to check for herring eggs depositied subsequent to those observed on cruise C3/89 and C4/89.
2. To commission the new cored cable/water sampling system. 3. To carry out dispersion studies at Garroch Head of the sewage plume in the water column, in order to investigate the movement and fate of trace metals in the sludge after dumping. 4. To obtain sediment samples at the Garroch Head dump site and surrounding areas for the analysis of bacterial spores |
Chief scientist | G K Clark (Scottish Office Agriculture and Fisheries Department Aberdeen Marine Laboratory), John A Morrison (Scottish Office Agriculture and Fisheries Department Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
Cruise report | (0.09 MB) |
Ocean/sea areas | |
General | Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland |
Specific | Clyde |
Track charts | |
Measurements | |
Physical oceanography | |
Current meters | Quantity: number of stations = 1 Description: 1 recovered |
Contamination | |
Suspended matter | Description: pump samples |
Other contaminant measurements | Description: acoustic studies of plume |
Biology and fisheries | |
Eggs and larvae | Quantity: number of samples = 270 Description: benthic eggs of pelagic species |
Pelagic bacteria/micro-organisms | |
Benthic bacteria/micro-organisms | |
Geology and geophysics | |
Grab | Quantity: number of deployments = 270 Description: Day Grab |
Moorings, landers, buoys | |
Physical oceanography | |
Current meters | 55° 7' 30" N 5° 2' 24" W — recovered mooring with 1cm, laid 25.03.89 |