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FRV Scotia 0398S
Cruise summary report
Cruise Info. | |
Ship name (ship code) | FRV Scotia (749S) |
Cruise identifier | 0398S |
Cruise period | 1998-02-14 — 1998-03-06 |
Status | Completed |
Port of departure | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
Port of return | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
Purpose | Research |
Objectives | 1. Demersal trawling survey of the grounds off the north and west coast of Scotland and Irish Sea.
2. To obtain nephrops samples from the Little Halibut Bank area. |
Chief scientist | Kenneth A Coull (Fisheries Research Services Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
Cruise report | (0.15 MB) |
Ocean/sea areas | |
General | North Sea Irish Sea and St. George's Channel North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) |
Specific | North and west coasts of Scotland |
Track charts | |
Measurements | |
Chemical oceanography | |
Radioactivity | Quantity: number of samples = 2 Description: Samples for Caesium analysis |
Contamination | |
Other contaminant measurements | Quantity: number of hauls = 4 Description: Hauls for polluted neprops |
Biology and fisheries | |
Pelagic fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 55 Description: Trawl hauls |
Demersal fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 55 Description: Trawl hauls |