RV Corella 14/73
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Corella (74CX) |
| Cruise identifier | 14/73 |
| Cruise period | 1973-09-27 — 1973-10-09 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Fisheries |
| Objectives | 1. To carry out a tin tow net survey for herring larvae in the western
half of the central North Sea, as part of the ICES survey of the abundance and distribution of autumn spawned herring larvae in the North Sea and adjacent waters. 2. To release seabed drifters at selected stations within the main areas of herring larvae distribution. 3. To compare the catches of herring larvae obtained with various types of tin tow nets. Comparative work was carried out within a patch of herring larvae off the Yorkshire coast using various combination of high-speed plankton sampling gear. The echo sounder was run continuously over the survey grid |
| Chief scientist | R J Wood (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.13 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Specific | Central North Sea: Norfolk coast, Yorkshire coast, Bridlington Bay, Dowsing area |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Other physical oceanographic measurements | Quantity: number of stations = 5 Description: 250 seabed drifters released within the main areas of herring larval distribution |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Seston | Quantity: number of experiments = 1 Description: 1 Depth Plankton Indicator was towed at T.T.N stations worked between 1800-0600 |
