FRV Scotia 0992S
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | FRV Scotia (749S) |
| Cruise identifier | 0992S |
| Cruise period | 1992-07-13 — 1992-07-31 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To participate in an ICES - coordinated acoustic and mid-water trawling survey in the north western North Sea and north of Scotland.
2. To obtain samples of herring for biological analysis. |
| Chief scientist | Edmund John Simmonds (Scottish Office Agriculture and Fisheries Department Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
| Project | Herring Acoustic survey |
| Coordinating body | ICES |
| Cruise report |  (0.08 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) |
| Specific | North western North Sea of Scotland |
| Track charts |  |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Surface measurements underway (T,S) | Quantity: activity duration in days = 18 |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Pelagic fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 23 Description: trawls |
| Demersal fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 23 Description: trawls |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Multi-beam echosounding | Quantity: activity duration in days = 18 Description: 38, 120, 200 k hz |
| Single channel seismic reflection | Quantity: activity duration in days = 18 Description: Roxanne sea bed sediments |
