Cruise summary report
Cruise Info. | |
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Ship name (ship code) | FRV Explorer (74EX) |
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Cruise identifier | 8/80 |
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Cruise period | 1980-07-09 — 1980-07-28 |
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Status | Completed |
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Port of departure | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
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Port of return | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
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Purpose | Research |
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Objectives | To participate in the ICES coordinated echointergrator and trawling survey for herring in the north western North Sea
''Explorer'' anchored in Ronas Voe to recalibrate the echointegrator equiptment after repairs. A half-landing took place in Kirkwell on the 18/07/1980. Explorer docked into Lerwick on the 25/07/1980 so that scientific staff could attend a meeting and to calibrate the echointegrator resurveyed part of the area E of Fair Isle |
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Chief scientist | David W McKay (Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
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Project | Herring Survey |
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Coordinating body | ICES |
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Cruise report | (1.28 MB) |
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Ocean/sea areas | |
General | North Sea |
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Specific | Shetland/ Orkney, Holm Sound, E of Sumburgh, SE of Fair Isle |
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Track charts | (1.21 MB) |
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Measurements | |
Biology and fisheries | |
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Pelagic fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 20 Description: usng a GOV bottom trawl for analysis of distribution,population structures. Herring encountered in 13 hauls |
Acoustic reflection on marine organisms. | |