Cruise summary report
Cruise Info. | |
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Ship name (ship code) | FRV Scotia (747S) |
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Cruise identifier | 7/57 |
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Cruise period | 1957-08-06 — 1957-08-17 |
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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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Objectives | 1. Productivity and Carbon-14 experiments.
2. Herring larvae survey. |
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Chief scientist | John H Steele (Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
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Cruise report | (0.10 MB) |
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Ocean/sea areas | |
General | North Sea |
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Measurements | |
Physical oceanography | |
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Subsurface temperature and salinity measurements | Description: A number of temperature measurements were collected throughout the cruise.
No. of measurements not noted. |
Biology and fisheries | |
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Zooplankton | Quantity: number of hauls = 42 Description: A number of plankton hauls took place throughout the cruise. Good hauls were made. |
Geology and geophysics | |
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Multi-beam echosounding | Description: The echo-sounder was deployed throughout the cruise. A number of small fish traces was noted several times.
No. of deployments not noted. |