RV Corella 16/73
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Corella (74CX) |
| Cruise identifier | 16/73 |
| Cruise period | 1973-11-06 — 1973-11-19 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To determine the reactions of plaice to a Granton trawl by extending
the series of experiments carried out on cruises CORELLA 13 and 18/1971, 15, 16, 17 and 18/1972 and 3 and 12/1973. 2. Capture of live dabs for use in laboratory experiments. 3. Collection of fish gonads and brains for histological examination. 4. Collection of fish pineal; pituitary and hypothalmus glands for hormone analysis. 5. Collection of phytoplankton sample for Dr Dodge (London University) . 6. Collection of live plaice for future sector scanning cruises. |
| Chief scientist | Brian C Mumford (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.11 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Measurements | |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Phytoplankton | Quantity: number of stations = 1 |
