Cruise summary report
Cruise Info. | |
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Ship name (ship code) | FRV Scotia (747S) |
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Cruise identifier | 4/60 |
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Cruise period | 1960-05-21 — 1960-06-04 |
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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.
Tagging.
Nephrops survey.
Hydrography, plankton and echo-sounding 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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Measurements | |
Physical oceanography | |
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Surface measurements underway (T,S) | |
Subsurface temperature and salinity measurements | |
Biology and fisheries | |
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Phytoplankton | Quantity: number of stations = 2 |
Zooplankton | Quantity: number of stations = 2 |
Pelagic fish | Quantity: activity duration in days = 8 Description: comparitive trawling: haddock and whiting |
Demersal fish | Quantity: activity duration in days = 8 Description: comparitive trawling: cod |
Crustaceans | Quantity: number of specimens = 42 Description: nephrops |
Taggings | Quantity: number of specimens = 583 Description: 400 plaice and 183 spurdogfish |
Other biological/fisheries measurement | Description: cod examined for nematodes |
Geology and geophysics | |
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Single-beam echosounding | |