RV Corystes COR14/00
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Corystes (74RY) |
| Cruise identifier | COR14/00 |
| Cruise period | 2000-11-21 — 2000-12-04 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To sample infaunal invertebrates at a series of sites in the Silver Pit that are subject to different levels of trawling disturbance.
2. To survey sites in the Silver Pit with side-scan sonar in an attempt to locate trawl tracks, and to correlate the presence of these tracks with records of trawling activity from other sources (satellite and overflight data). 3. To sample epifaunal and infaunal invertebrate species that have been categorised as vulnerable in the Silver Pit and Botney Cut, at sites subject to different levels of trawling disturbance. 4. To sample meiofaunal communities at experimentally trawled sites in the Western Mud Hole and Botney Cut (sites were trawled on Corystes 12/99 and 14/99). |
| Chief scientist | Simon Jennings (Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science Lowestoft Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.15 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Specific | Silver Pit/Hills |
| Measurements | |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Zoobenthos | Quantity: number of cores = 135 Description: Animals sieved on 1 mm mesh |
| Zoobenthos | Quantity: number of hauls = 12 Description: Animals retained in 20 mm mesh |
| Zoobenthos | Quantity: number of hauls = 5 Description: Dredge: animals retained in 5mm mesh. |
| Zoobenthos | Quantity: number of hauls = 12 Description: Animals retained in 2 mm mesh |
| Demersal fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 12 Description: Animals retained in 20 mm mesh |
