FRV Scotia 6/56
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | FRV Scotia (747S) |
| Cruise identifier | 6/56 |
| Cruise period | 1956-07-16 — 1956-08-09 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Fisheries |
| Objectives | Hydrography, chemistry, plankton, trawling (shark lines, great lines, herring, pelagic trawl & corbin net) surveys. Echo-tracers. |
| Chief scientist | Jake H Fraser (Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.40 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) |
| Specific | Butt of Lewis-Faroe Bank, Rockall, West and north-west of Shetland |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Subsurface temperature and salinity measurements | Description: measurements collected during the cruise. (No. of measurements not noted.) |
| Chemical oceanography | |
| Oxygen | Description: measurements collected during the cruise. (No. of measurements not noted.) |
| Phosphate | Description: measurements collected during the cruise. (No. of measurements not noted.) |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Phytoplankton | Description: plankton hauls taken during the cruise (No. of hauls not noted) |
| Zooplankton | Description: plankton hauls taken during the cruise (No. of hauls not noted) |
| Pelagic fish | Quantity: number of specimens = 29 Description: sharks of 5 species caught on great lines |
| Pelagic fish | Quantity: number of deployments = 2 Description: surface shark lines shot but none caught |
| Pelagic fish | Quantity: number of stations = 3 Description: A number of stations were trawled throughout the cruise. Catches of haddock were predominant. |
| Pelagic fish | Description: liver samples from elasmobranchs |
| Gear research | Description: The corbin net was trialed throughout the cruise. Now providing good catches. |
