FRV Explorer 2/66
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | FRV Explorer (74EX) |
| Cruise identifier | 2/66 |
| Cruise period | 1966-03-27 — 1966-04-17 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1) Hydrographic Stations
2) Parachute drogue tracking 3) Sampling in areas of Herring traces by Herring trawl and tagging |
| Chief scientist | John H Steele (Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.12 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Specific | Stavanger, Ustera Patch, |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Water bottle stations | |
| CTD stations | |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Demersal fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 6 Description: sampling the stock by herring trawl at Ustera Patch. |
| Taggings | Quantity: number of samples = 5157 Description: Herring tagged using 3323 Scottish Combination tags, 1640 Internal tags, 194 spaghetti tags |
