FRV Scotia 4/60
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | FRV Scotia (747S) |
| Cruise identifier | 4/60 |
| Cruise period | 1960-05-21 — 1960-06-04 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Leith, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Fisheries |
| Objectives | Comparative trawling.
Tagging. Nephrops survey. Hydrography, plankton and echo-sounding surveys. |
| Chief scientist | James M Lamont (Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.14 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Surface measurements underway (T,S) | |
| Subsurface temperature and salinity measurements | |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| 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 | |
| Single-beam echosounding |
