RV Tellina 11/73
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Tellina (74TE) |
| Cruise identifier | 11/73 |
| Cruise period | 1973-10-17 — 1973-11-07 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. Distribution and abundance of Pandalus borealis stock.
2. Distribution of Nephrops and length/sex frequency. 3. Gear trials: Comparison of Gulf and wing trawls. 4. Mesh selection of P. borealis for ICES Pandalus Working Group. 5. Predation of Nephrops/Pandalus by whitefish. 6. Baseline samples for dinoflagellate programme (Dr Dodge, Birkbeck College, and Mr Ayres, Burnham). |
| Chief scientist | P J Warren (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Burnham Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.11 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Measurements | |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Phytoplankton | Quantity: activity duration in hours = 6 Description: tow netting |
| Crustaceans | Quantity: number of hauls = 29 Description: shrimp, nephrops |
| Crustaceans | Quantity: number of specimens = 4403 Description: nephrops measured and sexed |
| Crustaceans | Description: shrimp samples taken for examination |
| Gear research | Quantity: number of hauls = 17 Description: Gulf and Nephrops wing trawl gear trials |
