RV Tellina 5/68
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Tellina (74TE) |
| Cruise identifier | 5/68 |
| Cruise period | 1968-03-04 — 1968-03-12 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To make a complete routine survey of Sizewell Bank for I-group
sole using the standard 2 m beam trawl. 2. To carry out comparative fishing trials using the 2 m beam trawl, modifications of this trawl, and the 2 m Agassiz trawl. 3. To release seabed and surface drifters. 4. To collect adult flat fish for hatchery use. 5. To make an Otter trawl survey for larger sole off Sizewell. |
| Chief scientist | John D Riley (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.08 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Surface drifters/drifting buoys | Description: surface drifters |
| Other physical oceanographic measurements | Description: seabed drifters |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Demersal fish | Description: surveys using beam trawl collected few 0-group and 1-group flatfish |
| Demersal fish | Description: adult flounder collected but no maturing dab or sole |
