RV Tellina 10/71
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Tellina (74TE) |
| Cruise identifier | 10/71 |
| Cruise period | 1971-09-29 — 1971-10-08 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Plymouth, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To carry out an echo and fishing survey along the south coast of England to study the distribution of sprat shoals with particular emphasis on locating 0-group fish in the Tor Bay-Lyme Bay region. The survey to be extended as far to the east as time and weather allowed.
2. Samples to be collected for routine biological analysis and fat determination. |
| Chief scientist | T J Hulme (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.13 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | English Channel Celtic Sea |
| Measurements | |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Pelagic fish | Description: few fishable traces found, herring and sprat dominated |
| Other biological/fisheries measurement | Quantity: number of samples = 3 Description: 2 sprat and 1 1-group herring preserved |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Single-beam echosounding | Quantity: activity duration in days = 7 Description: echo survey for fish traces |
