RV Cirolana CIR4/92
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Cirolana (74CZ) |
| Cruise identifier | CIR4/92 |
| Cruise period | 1992-03-17 — 1992-04-14 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To carry out a trawl survey of the western Celtic Sea.
2. To sample juvenile fish. 3. To collect Bass samples for maturity studies. No bass were caught. 4. To collect samples of 1-group hake for the Instituto Español de Oceanografia, Vigo, for immunogenetic studies. 5. To collect mackerel gonad samples for fecundity studies. 6. To obtain data on stomach contents to fill gaps in the data set collected last year. 7. To obtain data on development rates of megrim eggs. 8. To obtain megrim ovaries for fecundity studies. |
| Chief scientist | Brian W Jones (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.20 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Irish Sea and St. George's Channel North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) |
| Specific | Celtic Sea, SW Approaches, W English Channel |
| Track charts |  |
| Measurements | |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Phytoplankton | Quantity: number of stations = 7 |
| Zooplankton | Quantity: number of stations = 7 |
| Demersal fish | Quantity: number of stations = 67 |
