FRV Clupea 0390C_1
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | FRV Clupea (74CU) |
| Cruise identifier | 0390C_1 |
| Cruise period | 1990-03-12 — 1990-03-18 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Ardrossan, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Ardrossan, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To make a collection of gonads and fertilise eggs from herring caught on Ballantrae Bank.
2. To set up a trisponder system and to deploy a current meter and time-lapse camera on Ballantrae Bank. 3. To carry out trawling for pre-spawning Clyde herring. 4. To make pre-spawning diving, grab and TV surveys of the Ballantrae Bank spawning ground and to deploy apparatus on the sea bed. |
| Chief scientist | John Gamble (Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science) |
| Cruise report |  (0.06 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland |
| Specific | Firth of Clyde |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Water bottle stations | Quantity: number of stations = 2 Description: reverser stations |
| Current meters | Quantity: number of stations = 1 Description: 21 days |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Eggs and larvae | Quantity: number of stations = 2 Description: herring eggs |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Grab | Quantity: number of stations = 2 Description: grab stations |
| Other geological/geophysical measurements | Quantity: number of stations = 2 Description: bottom samples by diver |
| Moorings, landers, buoys | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Current meters | 55° 7' 0" N 5° 1' 59" W — 21 days record |
