FRV Mara 11/76
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | FRV Mara (74MR) |
| Cruise identifier | 11/76 |
| Cruise period | 1976-09-19 — 1976-10-20 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Buckie, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Corpach, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To carry out a midwater trawling and beach-seining survey for 0- and 1-group herring in the Minch.
2. To tag mackerel. 3. To carry out further environmental investigations of Raasay Sound DSA. |
| Chief scientist | Roger S Bailey (Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.18 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland |
| Measurements | |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Pelagic fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 47 Description: made using the Gourock midwater trawl. |
| Pelagic fish | Quantity: number of specimens = 208 Description: mackerel tagged. |
| Taggings | Quantity: number of specimens = 208 Description: mackerel tagged. |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Single-beam echosounding | Description: echo sounder run at regular intervals throughout the cruise. |
