RV Corystes COR8/96
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Corystes (74RY) |
| Cruise identifier | COR8/96 |
| Cruise period | 1996-06-06 — 1996-06-20 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To track cod equipped with long-life transponding acoustic tags and to estimate their swimming speed and orientation by simultaneous use of the sector scanning sonar and acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP).
2. To estimate depths of neutral buoyancy of cod in relation to the time allowed for pressure adaptation. |
| Chief scientist | Geoffrey P Arnold (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.16 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Specific | Southern North Sea |
| Track charts |  |
| Measurements | |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Other biological/fisheries measurement | Quantity: number of measurements = 1 Description: tracks of acoustically tagged plaice |
| Other biological/fisheries measurement | Quantity: number of measurements = 3 Description: tracks of acoustically tagged cod |
