FRV Scotia 2/61
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | FRV Scotia (747S) |
| Cruise identifier | 2/61 |
| Cruise period | 1961-03-01 — 1961-04-21 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Leith, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Fisheries |
| Objectives | Trawling, Nephrops, plankton, hydrography & echo-sounding surveys. |
| Chief scientist | John H Steele (Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.21 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Surface measurements underway (T,S) | Quantity: number of stations = 20 Description: surface and bottom samples + additional |
| Subsurface temperature and salinity measurements | Quantity: number of stations = 20 Description: surface and bottom samples + additional |
| Chemical oceanography | |
| Phosphate | Quantity: number of stations = 20 Description: surface and bottom samples + additional |
| Nitrate | Quantity: number of stations = 20 Description: surface and bottom samples + additional |
| Silicate | Quantity: number of stations = 20 Description: surface and bottom samples + additional |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Primary productivity | Description: line of productivity stations; herring environmental survey; trawling survey |
| Phytoplankton | Quantity: number of stations = 20 Description: Gulf III samples and plankton indicator; 1m tow nets and standard samples at selected stations |
| Zooplankton | Quantity: number of stations = 20 Description: Gulf III samples and plankton indicator; 1m tow nets and standard samples at selected stations |
| Pelagic fish | Quantity: number of stations = 20 Description: trawling survey: herring and whiting |
| Pelagic fish | Description: line of productivity stations; herring environmental survey; trawling survey |
| Demersal fish | Quantity: number of stations = 20 Description: trawling survey: Sebastes viviparus |
| Other biological/fisheries measurement | Description: cod examined for nematodes |
| Other biological/fisheries measurement | Description: whiting gall bladders collected |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Single-beam echosounding | Description: run continuously |
