RV Corystes COR2/92
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Corystes (74RY) |
| Cruise identifier | COR2/92 |
| Cruise period | 1992-01-28 — 1992-02-06 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. 200 tagged plaice to be released at 5 stations over a 24-hour period. Aim abandoned due to the lack of suitable fish for tagging.
2. Trials of new pressure telemetry tag, switched mode prototype tag, etc. 3. Re-evaluate the Scanner during a short tag training exercise (about 24 hours). If the trials are successful and without compromising the programme, a 3-man BBC team will be available at short notice to film a portion of the tracking exercise. 4. Assess an ADCP system, and to determine if it can be used in conjunction with the Scanner (conflicting operating frequencies). 5. Deploy a Granton trawl and investigate the effects of the door backstrop attachment point on the wing-end distance and headline height, and the performance of the Scanmar net telemetry system. 6. Evaluate the EG&G software, and the Continuous Logging software. 7. Compare the sensor data from Chelsea and Guildine flow cells. 8. Evaluate the RoxAnn sea-bed discrimination system (if delivered in time for the cruise). Aims 4 and 8 could not be completed due to the ADCP and RoxAnn seabed evaluation systems not arriving on time. |
| Chief scientist | Michael H Beach (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.20 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Specific | Chiefly Southern North Sea |
| Track charts |  |
| Measurements | |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Other geological/geophysical measurements | Description: Gear trials cruise |
