Tjeldoy
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name | Tjeldoy |
| Cruise period | 1983-08-30 — 1983-09-14 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Falmouth, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Brixham, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To investigate the orientation and behaviour of plaice in relation to bottom topography and near-bed currents under the combined influence of tide and swell.
2. To test the deployment and operation of the MAFF autonomous near-bed velocity recorder. 3. To search for juvenile scallops and to determine local distribution, density and size composition as appropriate. None of the three main aims were achieved. |
| Chief scientist | Geoffrey P Arnold (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.10 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | English Channel Irish Sea and St. George's Channel |
| Specific | Start Bay, Skerries Bank |
