Cruise summary report
Cruise Info. | |
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Ship name (ship code) | FRV Scotia (747S) |
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Cruise identifier | 5/51 |
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Cruise period | 1951-08-14 — 1951-09-05 |
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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 | Hydrography, plankton and trawling surveys.
Contact was made with the "Clupea" in the Moray Firth on September 4th and the two ships worked in co-operation to test the working of the pelagic trawl. |
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Chief scientist | Jake H Fraser (Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
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Cruise report | (0.13 MB) |
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Ocean/sea areas | |
General | North Sea North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) |
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Measurements | |
Physical oceanography | |
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Subsurface temperature and salinity measurements | Description: A number of temperature, oxygen and phosphate measurements were collected during the cruise. |
Chemical oceanography | |
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Oxygen | Description: A number of temperature, oxygen and phosphate measurements were collected during the cruise. |
Phosphate | Description: A number of temperature, oxygen and phosphate measurements were collected during the cruise. |
Biology and fisheries | |
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Phytoplankton | Description: A number of plankton hauls took place during the cruise, good catches of phytoplankton were made. |
Zooplankton | Description: A number of plankton hauls took place during the cruise, good catches of phytoplankton were made. |
Pelagic fish | Description: A number of hauls were made throughout the cruise, samples of lemon sole, megrim and witch were collected.
No. of hauls not noted. |
Demersal fish | Description: A number of hauls were made throughout the cruise, samples of lemon sole, megrim and witch were collected.
No. of hauls not noted. |
Geology and geophysics | |
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Multi-beam echosounding | Description: A number of echo-traces took place during the cruise.
No. of echo-traces not noted. |