FRV Scotia 10/65
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | FRV Scotia (747S) |
| Cruise identifier | 10/65 |
| Cruise period | 1965-10-05 — 1965-10-29 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Fisheries |
| Objectives | Nephrops study
Work on the herring-environmental stations in Skagerrak Trawls and studies were carried out at other stations |
| Chief scientist | James Mason (Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.16 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Surface measurements underway (T,S) | |
| Subsurface temperature and salinity measurements | |
| Chemical oceanography | |
| Oxygen | Quantity: number of stations = 63 Description: surface water samples |
| Phosphate | Quantity: number of stations = 63 Description: surface water samples |
| Nitrate | Quantity: number of stations = 63 Description: surface water samples |
| Silicate | Quantity: number of stations = 63 Description: surface water samples |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Primary productivity | Quantity: number of stations = 21 Description: 4 litre carbon samples |
| Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence) | Quantity: number of stations = 63 Description: 2 litre chlorophyll samples |
| Phytoplankton | Quantity: number of stations = 63 Description: Gulf III samples, multi-depth plankton indicators |
| Zooplankton | Quantity: number of stations = 63 Description: Gulf III samples, multi-depth plankton indicators |
| Pelagic fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 63 Description: trawls including: whiting, herring and sprat |
| Molluscs | Quantity: number of hauls = 63 Description: trawls including: squid |
| Crustaceans | Quantity: number of hauls = 63 Description: trawls including: nephrops |
| Gear research | Description: newly-designed herring trawl |
