FRV Mara 10/80
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | FRV Mara (74MR) |
| Cruise identifier | 10/80 |
| Cruise period | 1980-08-25 — 1980-09-04 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Buckie, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Buckie, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Fisheries |
| Objectives | 1. To recover a recording instrument moored off Ungam Island, Sullom Voe.
2. To deploy and recover cages of queen scallops off Calback Ness. 3. To undertake hydrographic station work along an axial section of Sullom Voe, and in the vicinity of the terminal jetties. 4. To undertake sampling of sediment and benthic animals in the Orkney area. |
| Chief scientist | Ian M Davies (Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.33 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Specific | Shetland/Orkney |
| Track charts |  |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Water bottle stations | Quantity: number of stations = 36 |
| Chemical oceanography | |
| Oxygen | Quantity: number of samples = 18 |
| Phosphate | Quantity: number of samples = 60 |
| Nitrate | Quantity: number of samples = 35 |
| Nitrite | Quantity: number of samples = 60 |
| Ammonia | Quantity: number of samples = 35 |
| Silicate | Quantity: number of samples = 35 |
| Alkalinity | Quantity: number of samples = 60 |
| Contamination | |
| Trace metals | Quantity: number of samples = 31 Description: chemical analysis of sediments |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Other biological/fisheries measurement | Quantity: number of samples = 6 Description: toxicology studies |
