Cruise Info. | |
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Ship name (ship code) | FRV Scotia (747S) |
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Cruise identifier | 2A/64 |
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Cruise period | 1964-03-03 — 1964-03-21 |
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Status | Completed |
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Purpose | Fisheries |
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Objectives | Hydrography, plankton, trawling and echo-sounding. |
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Chief scientist | Robert Johnston (Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
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Cruise report | (0.09 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 | |
Surface drifters/drifting buoys | Quantity: number of observations = 4 Description: dahn buoys |
Surface drifters/drifting buoys | Quantity: number of observations = 19 Description: drift bottles |
Chemical oceanography | |
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Oxygen | |
Phosphate | |
Nitrate | |
Nitrite | |
Ammonia | |
Biology and fisheries | |
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Phytoplankton | Quantity: number of samples = 39 Description: plankton collections by: 24 Gulf III, 10 1metre silk townets and 5 standard nets |
Zooplankton | Quantity: number of samples = 39 Description: plankton collections by: 24 Gulf III, 10 1metre silk townets and 5 standard nets |
Pelagic fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 23 Description: including haddock, whiting and herring |
Demersal fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 23 Description: including haddock, whiting and herring |
Demersal fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 23 Description: trawls including: cod, dogfish and gadoids |
Crustaceans | Quantity: number of hauls = 23 Description: nephrops |
Geology and geophysics | |
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Single-beam echosounding | Description: continuous record except in bad weather |
Other geological/geophysical measurements | Quantity: number of samples = 5 Description: bottom sediment using mud bucket |