FRV Explorer 9/75
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | FRV Explorer (74EX) |
| Cruise identifier | 9/75 |
| Cruise period | 1975-10-22 — 1975-11-18 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1) To perform an acoutsic and exploratory fishing survey of unexploited stocks to the west of Scotland
2) To obtain samples of blue whiting for studies on the parasites Anisakis and Diphyllobothrium 3) Blue whiting that were caught were transferred to the ''Sir William Hardy'' for examination by TRS The acoustic survey was interrupted from the 29/10/1975 till the 30/10/1975 to despatch samples of blue whiting to Dr K Anderson in Oslo. A call was made at Stornoway to change personnel and to collect fishing gear. ''Explorer'' proceded to Broad Bay to change over to a demersal trawl and to calibrate the acoustic equiptment, after the failure of the netzonde equiptment. |
| Chief scientist | John Richards (Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.13 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Irish Sea and St. George's Channel North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) |
| Specific | Ronas Voe, W of St Kilda, Wyville-Thomson Ridge |
| Measurements | |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Pelagic fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 18 Description: biomass determination |
| Exploratory fishing | Description: industrial and commercial fish |
| Other biological/fisheries measurement | Description: deep scattering layers |
