FRV Explorer 7B/70
Cruise plan
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | FRV Explorer (74EX) |
| Cruise identifier | 7B/70 |
| Cruise period | 1970-08-16 — 1970-08-29 |
| Status | Completed |
| Purpose | Trials |
| Objectives | 1) Survey of St Kilda area to locate concentrations of pelagic fish, principally herring.
2) The Engels gear used to sample shoals detected by echo-sounder 3) The engineering performance of the Engles gear will be studied, with particular reference to its manoeuvreability and aimed trawling 4) A wide opening bottom gear will be fished and its perfromance calculated to isolate any variations in its operating characteristics from design figures |
| Chief scientist | D N MacLennan (Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
| Cruise programme |  (0.09 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Specific | St Kilda |
