RV Corystes COR6/00
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Corystes (74RY) |
| Cruise identifier | COR6/00 |
| Cruise period | 2000-05-01 — 2000-05-13 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | The main aims of the cruise were to identify species that are vulnerable to beam trawling disturbance and describe the structural and trophic changes that take place in benthic communities when vulnerable species are lost.
The specific objectives of the cruise were. 1. To sample the meiofaunal community at trawled and control sites (Western Mud Hole and Botney Cut). The trawled sites were fished on CORYSTES 12/99 and 14/99. 2. To survey the trawled and control sites in Western Mud Hole and Botney Cut with side-scan sonar. 3. To sample epifaunal invertebrates at a series of offshore sites (7 in Silver Pit and 13 in the Hills) that are subject to different levels of fishing disturbance. 4. To sample infaunal invertebrates at a series of offshore sites (7 in Silver Pit and 13 in the Hills) that are subject to different levels of fishing disturbance. 5. To collect invertebrates for stable isotope analysis. |
| Chief scientist | Simon Jennings (Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science Lowestoft Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.09 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Specific | Central North Sea - South and West of Dogger Bank |
| Measurements | |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Zoobenthos | Quantity: number of hauls = 60 Description: Beam trawl for study of benthic epifauna |
| Zoobenthos | Quantity: number of hauls = 60 Description: Dredge. Study of benthic epifauna |
| Zoobenthos | Quantity: number of cores = 100 Description: Study of benthic infauna |
