Mirfak 1/89
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | Mirfak (64MF) |
| Cruise identifier | 1/89 |
| Cruise period | 1989-03-30 — 1989-04-17 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | To investigate the spatial relationships between late larval and early "O"-group herring, and potential predators in the northern North Sea (Duplicate roscop no 3575) |
| Chief scientist | Mike R Heath (Scottish Office Agriculture and Fisheries Department Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.12 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Track charts |  |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Surface measurements underway (T,S) | Description: whole cruise |
| CTD stations | |
| Subsurface temperature and salinity measurements | |
| Transparency (eg transmissometer) | |
| Optics (eg underwater light levels) | |
| Chemical oceanography | |
| Other chemical oceanographic measurements | Description: nutrients |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Primary productivity | |
| Phytoplankton | Description: Methot Isacc Kidd trawl |
| Zooplankton | Quantity: 64 Description: Ocean Sampler |
| Pelagic fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 18 Description: Trawl and Pelagic trawl, |
| Demersal fish | |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Multi-beam echosounding |
