Cruise summary report
Cruise Info. | |
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Ship name (ship code) | FRV Scotia (747S) |
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Cruise identifier | 5/59 |
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Cruise period | 1959-06-13 — 1959-06-24 |
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Status | Completed |
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Port of departure | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
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Port of return | Leith, United Kingdom |
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Purpose | Fisheries |
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Objectives | Comparative trawling.
Nephrops survey.
Hydrography (chemistry) and plankton surveys. |
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Chief scientist | James M Lamont (Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
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Cruise report | (0.14 MB) |
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Ocean/sea areas | |
General | North Sea |
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Specific | Buchan Deep and the Firth of Forth |
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Measurements | |
Physical oceanography | |
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Surface measurements underway (T,S) | |
Subsurface temperature and salinity measurements | |
Chemical oceanography | |
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Oxygen | |
Phosphate | |
Nitrate | |
Biology and fisheries | |
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Phytoplankton | Description: standard and 1m silk oblique hauls |
Zooplankton | Description: standard and 1m silk oblique hauls |
Demersal fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 37 Description: chief marketable species: plaice, lemon sole and codling |
Demersal fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 37 Description: chief marketable species: whiting and haddock |
Crustaceans | Quantity: number of stations = 4 Description: nephrops survey, only found at 2 stations |
Other biological/fisheries measurement | Quantity: number of samples = 100 Description: haddock gall bladders preserved |
Other biological/fisheries measurement | Description: scale and otolith samples taken |
Other biological/fisheries measurement | Quantity: number of specimens = 17550 Description: measured: 8730 whiting, 7530 haddock, 460 codling, 460 plaice and 370 lemon sole |