FRV Scotia 2/65
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | FRV Scotia (747S) |
| Cruise identifier | 2/65 |
| Cruise period | 1965-03-15 — 1965-03-31 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Fisheries |
| Objectives | Delayed start due to over-running refit. Hydrographic and trawl stations in the Buchan Deeps, inner Moray Firth. Unable to go to drift indicator stations off Wick due to weather conditions. Echo-sounding also was used. |
| Chief scientist | James A Adams (Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.24 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Surface measurements underway (T,S) | Description: measured throughout cruise |
| Optics (eg underwater light levels) | Description: light meter readings |
| Current meters | Description: current indicators released at standard positions |
| Surface drifters/drifting buoys | Quantity: number of stations = 9 Description: drift bottles released |
| Other physical oceanographic measurements | Description: herring-environmental survey |
| Chemical oceanography | |
| Oxygen | Description: water samples |
| Phosphate | Description: water samples |
| Nitrate | Description: water samples |
| Silicate | Description: water samples |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Primary productivity | Description: carbon |
| Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence) | Description: chlorophyll a |
| Phytoplankton | Description: plankton samples |
| Phytoplankton | Quantity: number of samples = 46 Description: multi-depth plankton indicator samples |
| Zooplankton | Quantity: number of samples = 46 Description: multi-depth plankton indicator samples |
| Zooplankton | Description: plankton samples |
| Pelagic fish | Description: trawls including: whiting, haddock and herring |
| Demersal fish | Description: trawls including: cod |
| Crustaceans | Description: trawls including: nephrops |
| Other biological/fisheries measurement | Description: blood samples of cod, haddock and whiting |
| Other biological/fisheries measurement | Description: herring-environmental survey |
| Other biological/fisheries measurement | Description: stomachs of haddock, whiting, hake, cod, argentine and long rough dab collected |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Single-beam echosounding |
