RV Cirolana CIR2/97
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Cirolana (74CZ) |
| Cruise identifier | CIR2/97 |
| Cruise period | 1997-02-11 — 1997-02-25 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | One of a series of annual monitoring cruises to study:
1) The prevalence of fish diseases in dab and flounder as part of MAFF biological effects of contaminants monitoring programme. 2) The prevalence and severity of disease and parasitism in commercial fish species such as cod and whiting. |
| Chief scientist | Stephen Wolfgang Feist (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Fish Disease Laboratory Weymouth) |
| Cruise report |  (0.26 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea Irish Sea and St. George's Channel |
| Specific | Western North Sea, Liverpool Bay, Cardigan Bay, Carmarthen Bay |
| Track charts |  |
| Measurements | |
| Contamination | |
| Contaminants in organisms | Quantity: number of stations = 10 Description: Fish samples for contaminant analysis |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Demersal fish | Quantity: number of stations = 44 Description: Disease prevalence in demersal flatfish |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Grab | Quantity: number of stations = 4 Description: Sediment grabs |
