FRV Explorer 2-3B/68
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | FRV Explorer (74EX) |
| Cruise identifier | 2-3B/68 |
| Cruise period | 1968-03-30 — 1968-04-10 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Greenock, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Stornoway, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1) To carry out comparative sampling for blue whiting eggs and larvae with ''Ernest Holt''
2) To make hydrographic observations |
| Chief scientist | Jake H Fraser (Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland Aberdeen Marine Laboratory), James A Adams (Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.38 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Atlantic Ocean |
| Specific | W of the Outer Hebrides, Rockall Bank |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Surface measurements underway (T,S) | |
| Bathythermograph | Quantity: number of profiles = 8 Description: mechanical |
| Water bottle stations | Quantity: number of stations = 41 Description: 8 T surface |
| Chemical oceanography | |
| Oxygen | Quantity: 4 |
| Phosphate | Quantity: 22 |
| Nitrate | Quantity: 22 |
| Isotopes | Description: C |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence) | Quantity: 39 Description: chlorophyll a |
| Phytoplankton | Quantity: 48 |
| Zooplankton | Description: The Gulf III and W.P.3 nets were used |
| Eggs and larvae | Description: comparative sampling for blue whiting |
