FRV Clupea 0302C
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | FRV Clupea (74CU) |
| Cruise identifier | 0302C |
| Cruise period | 2002-02-12 — 2002-02-25 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Fraserburgh, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Fraserburgh, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To identify significant concentrations of spawning cod in inshore areas from the Moray Firth to the Clyde.
2. To tag spawning cod for investigations of their movements. Tagging will involve both conventional and data storage tags. 3. To collect samples of cod for analysis of reproductive development, genetics and otolith chemistry. 4. To investigate the potential of echosounding and ROXANN for mapping the distribution of cod spawning areas. |
| Chief scientist | Peter J Wright (Fisheries Research Services Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
| Project | Metcod |
| Cruise report |  (1.06 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) |
| Specific | Moray Firth, Orkney, Minch |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Bathythermograph | Quantity: number of profiles = 15 Description: bathythermographs deployed |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Taggings | Quantity: number of deployments = 10 Description: DST tags released |
| Exploratory fishing | Quantity: number of hauls = 22 Description: trawl hauls for cod |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Single-beam echosounding | Description: EK 500 data collected at all times |
