RV Corystes COR3/03
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Corystes (74RY) |
| Cruise identifier | COR3/03 |
| Cruise period | 2003-02-15 — 2003-03-04 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To carry out a plankton surveys in the Irish Sea to determine cod and plaice egg spawning. The identification of gadoid eggs (cod, haddock and whiting) will trial newly developed genetic identification method.
2. To collect zooplankton samples for copepod production and fish larval feeding studies. 3. To undertake calibration runs for the high-speed plankton sampler pup net system. 4. To collect comparative zooplankton samples using ring nets and the high speed plankton sampler pup net system. |
| Chief scientist | Clive James Fox (Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science Lowestoft Laboratory) |
| Cruise programme |  (0.07 MB) |
| Cruise report | (0.15 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Irish Sea and St. George's Channel |
| Specific | ICES area V11a |
| Track charts | (0.09 MB) |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Surface measurements underway (T,S) | Quantity: activity duration in days = 10 Description: Continuous logging surface (T&S) |
| Water bottle stations | Quantity: number of samples = 75 Description: Surface water bottles |
| CTD stations | Quantity: number of profiles = 150 Description: Guildline CTD on plankton sampler |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Zooplankton | Quantity: number of hauls = 150 Description: Double oblique plankton hauls |
| Eggs and larvae | Quantity: number of hauls = 150 Description: Double oblique plankton hauls |