FRV Mara 2/63
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | FRV Mara (74MR) |
| Cruise identifier | 2/63 |
| Cruise period | 1963-01-28 — 1963-02-22 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Fraserburgh, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Fraserburgh, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1) Tagging and release of crabs
2) The relative efficacies of 4 creel baits were tested 3) A comparison was made between Scottish creels with 5 in shuttered eyes and commercial collapsible potts. Both types of gear were baitted with skate offal ''Mara'' was based in Fraserburgh for the entire cruise |
| Chief scientist | James Mason (Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.04 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Measurements | |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Crustaceans | Quantity: number of specimens = 268 Description: Crabs caught. These and those that were bought were tagged and released at 9 stations on the crab grounds off Fraserburgh |
| Crustaceans | Quantity: number of deployments = 148 Description: Creels baited with either skate offal, whiting, fish meal or crab meal to test effectiveness of baits. |
| Taggings | Quantity: number of specimens = 670 Description: Crabs of commerical size caught and bought had tags attached to their claws and were released at 9 stations on the crab grounds off Fraserburgh. 36 undersized crabs were tagged by the Gundersen method |
