FRV Mara 9/78
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | FRV Mara (74MR) |
| Cruise identifier | 9/78 |
| Cruise period | 1978-08-28 — 1978-09-21 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Buckie, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Buckie, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To carry out a midwater trawling survey for 0-group herring in inshore waters west of Scotland.
2. To investigate the possibilities of using the Marine Laboratory echointegrator to obtain quantitative estimates of the abundance of 0-group herring and sprats in inshore waters. |
| Chief scientist | John A Morrison (Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.11 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Irish Sea and St. George's Channel |
| Measurements | |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Pelagic fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 36 Description: monitoring & surveillance |
