Cruise summary report
Cruise Info. | |
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Ship name (ship code) | FRV Goldseeker (74GO) |
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Cruise identifier | 12/77 |
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Cruise period | 1977-12-05 — 1977-12-22 |
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Status | Completed |
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Port of departure | Buckie, United Kingdom |
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Port of return | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
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Objectives | 1. To carry out an echosounder and midwater trawling survey for sprats in the Moray Firth.
2. To relate the distribution of sprats to spatial variation in temperature, salinity and turbidity. |
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Chief scientist | Roger S Bailey (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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Specific | Moray Firth |
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Measurements | |
Physical oceanography | |
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Transparency (eg transmissometer) | |
Biology and fisheries | |
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Acoustic reflection on marine organisms. | Description: echosounder survey for sprats. |