FRV Explorer 1/80
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | FRV Explorer (74EX) |
| Cruise identifier | 1/80 |
| Cruise period | 1980-01-10 — 1980-01-22 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1) To carry out an echo-integration survey survey for sprats in the Western North Sea between the Morray Firth and the Firth of Forth
2) To identify echo traces using a pelagic trawl 3) To conduct an inter-calibration with FRV Corella |
| Chief scientist | J Ian Edwards (Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
| Coordinating body | MAFF |
| Cruise report |  (0.09 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Specific | N.E. Coast Scotland, Firth of Forth, Dunbar, Dornoch Firth |
| Track charts | (2.88 MB) |
| Measurements | |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Demersal fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 4 Description: Taken within 20 m of the seabed. No herring apart from the larvae were captured |
| Acoustic reflection on marine organisms. | Description: identification,distribution using the mid-water trawl PT112. Biomass estimation |
