FRV Clupea 0282C_2
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | FRV Clupea (74CU) |
| Cruise identifier | 0282C_2 |
| Cruise period | 1982-03-15 — 1982-03-25 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Troon, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Troon, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To lift and relay moorings for 1982 Loch Ewe bag experiment.
2. To set up rafts and deploy bags and hardware. 3. To collect ripe herring and cod gonad material for the Loch Ewe bag experiments. A series of trawls were carried out off Pladda and on Ballentrae Bank. Gadoid gonads were collected. Eggs from herring yielded in the final haul were successfully fertilised and plated out. Successful shipboard fertilisations of cod and saithe eggs were accomplised and samples of unfertilised and fertilised gadiod eggs were preserved. |
| Chief scientist | D D Seaton (Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.12 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland |
| Specific | Loch Ewe |
| Measurements | |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Eggs and larvae | Quantity: number of hauls = 2 Description: Herring catch on Ballantrae Bank |
| Pelagic fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 2 Description: Herring catch on Ballantrae Bank |
| Demersal fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 2 Description: Herring catch on Ballantrae Bank |
