RV Lough Foyle LF/21/98
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Lough Foyle (74LG) |
| Cruise identifier | LF/21/98 |
| Cruise period | 1998-05-17 — 1998-05-22 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Belfast, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Belfast, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | Juvenile gadoid study
1. To investigate the abundance and geographic distribution of juvenile gadoids in the western Irish Sea, as part of the juvenile gadoids index (1994 to 1998). 2. To collect otoliths for new recruitment project to investigate whiting growth and hatch day distributions. 3. To collect samples for biochemical investigations of larval and juvenile fish condition. 4. To investigate the spatial and temporal changes in ctenophore and chaetognath abundance. 5. To investigate the degree of MIK sample variability at fixed sites, complementing previous ring net and Gulf VII studies. 6. To obtain phytoplankton samples and physical data from the DANI mooring in the centre of the western Irish Sea. |
| Chief scientist | Mark Dickey-Collas (Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland) |
| Cruise report |  (0.12 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Irish Sea and St. George's Channel |
| Specific | Western Irish Sea |
| Track charts | (0.01 MB) |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| CTD stations | Quantity: number of stations = 11 Description: 11 plankton stations were sampled and a CTD was deployed. |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Zooplankton | Quantity: number of stations = 11 Description: 11 plankton stations were sampled and a CTD was deployed. |
| Zooplankton | Quantity: number of stations = 17 Description: 17 plankton stations were sampled. |
| Pelagic fish | Quantity: number of stations = 1 Description: At station 39 a variability study was carried out. |
| Pelagic fish | Quantity: number of stations = 1 Description: To investigate the abundance and distribution of juvenile gadoids. Looking at the degree of MIK sample variability. Stations 29 was sampled using the MIK net station. |
| Pelagic fish | Quantity: number of stations = 8 Description: 8 MIK net stations were sampled. |
