RV Tellina 7/68
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Tellina (74TE) |
| Cruise identifier | 7/68 |
| Cruise period | 1968-04-01 — 1968-04-11 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To make a routine survey of the Sizewell Bank area for 1-group flatfish, especially 1-group sole, using the standard 2 metre beam trawl.
2. To release seabed and surface drifters. 3. To make an inshore plankton survey of fish eggs and larvae. 4. To make an otter trawl survey for larger sole using a cod-end cover. |
| Chief scientist | John D Riley (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.09 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Surface drifters/drifting buoys | Quantity: number of stations = 6 Description: surface drifters released |
| Other physical oceanographic measurements | Quantity: number of stations = 6 Description: seabed drifters released |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Phytoplankton | Description: plankton collected |
| Zooplankton | Description: plankton collected |
| Eggs and larvae | Description: plankton collected |
| Demersal fish | Description: beam trawl - sole, plaice and dab counted and measured |
| Demersal fish | Description: otter trawl survey on plaice and sole |
| Molluscs | Description: search for bivalve Venerupis sp. And live Ophiothrixfragilis collected |
| Gear research | Description: otter trawls |
