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RV Cirolana CIR3B/73
Cruise summary report
Cruise Info. | |
Ship name (ship code) | RV Cirolana (74CZ) |
Cruise identifier | CIR3B/73 |
Cruise period | 1973-03-13 — 1973-04-04 |
Status | Completed |
Port of departure | Greenock, United Kingdom |
Port of return | Grimsby, United Kingdom |
Purpose | Research |
Objectives | 1. To survey the southern Barents Sea for codling.
2. To sample nanoplankton. 3. To record activity from the cod pineal. 4. To collect endocrine glands from a number of fish species. |
Chief scientist | David H Cushing (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
Cruise report | (0.20 MB) |
Ocean/sea areas | |
General | Barents Sea North Atlantic Ocean North Sea Norwegian Sea |
Specific | 54-00N;04-00W to 73-00N;39-00E |
Measurements | |
Physical oceanography | |
Water bottle stations | Quantity: number of stations = 32 Description: T bottom 62 T surface |
Biology and fisheries | |
Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence) | Quantity: activity duration in days = 15 Description: chlorophyll determined by Turner fluorometer (continuous) |
Phytoplankton | Quantity: number of samples = 5 |
Pelagic fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 16 |
Demersal fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 16 |
Other biological/fisheries measurement | Description: deep scattering layers |
Meteorology | |
Occasional standard measurements | |
Other meteorological measurements | Description: sea and swell |