FRV Scotia 9/59
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | FRV Scotia (747S) |
| Cruise identifier | 9/59 |
| Cruise period | 1959-10-06 — 1959-10-28 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Fisheries |
| Objectives | Trawling, plankton, hydrography and echo-sounding surveys. |
| Chief scientist | Zbigniew Kabata (Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.21 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) |
| Specific | west of the Orkney and Shetland Isles |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Surface measurements underway (T,S) | |
| Subsurface temperature and salinity measurements | |
| Surface drifters/drifting buoys | Quantity: number of deployments = 95 Description: 5 drift bottles released at 19 stations |
| Chemical oceanography | |
| Oxygen | Description: surface dissolved oxygen values |
| Phosphate | Description: depleted values |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Phytoplankton | Description: surface tow net |
| Zooplankton | Description: surface tow net |
| Eggs and larvae | Quantity: number of stations = 19 Description: herring larval survey |
| Demersal fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 20 Description: otter trawl, roundfish survey |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Single-beam echosounding | Description: run as continuously as possible |
