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Wight Sapphire

Cruise summary report

Cruise Info. 
Ship nameWight Sapphire
Cruise period1994-06-01 — 1994-06-02
StatusCompleted
Port of departureLymington, United Kingdom
Port of returnLymington, United Kingdom
PurposeResearch
ObjectivesTo lay unmarked scallop shells on three standard plots for the Solent Oyster spatfall monitoring experiment
Chief scientistDavid William Palmer (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory)
ProjectMF0206BO Solent Oysters
Cruise reportWight Sapphire  cruise report wight_sapphire_june94.pdf (0.32 MB) 
Ocean/sea areas 
GeneralEnglish Channel
SpecificThe Solent
Measurements 
Biology and fisheries 
MolluscsQuantity: number of specimens = 2100
Description: marked shells were spread evenly over each of the 3 plots