FRV Explorer 8/80
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | FRV Explorer (74EX) |
| Cruise identifier | 8/80 |
| Cruise period | 1980-07-09 — 1980-07-28 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | To participate in the ICES coordinated echointergrator and trawling survey for herring in the north western North Sea
''Explorer'' anchored in Ronas Voe to recalibrate the echointegrator equiptment after repairs. A half-landing took place in Kirkwell on the 18/07/1980. Explorer docked into Lerwick on the 25/07/1980 so that scientific staff could attend a meeting and to calibrate the echointegrator resurveyed part of the area E of Fair Isle |
| Chief scientist | David W McKay (Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
| Project | Herring Survey |
| Coordinating body | ICES |
| Cruise report |  (1.28 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Specific | Shetland/ Orkney, Holm Sound, E of Sumburgh, SE of Fair Isle |
| Track charts | (1.21 MB) |
| Measurements | |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Pelagic fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 20 Description: usng a GOV bottom trawl for analysis of distribution,population structures. Herring encountered in 13 hauls |
| Acoustic reflection on marine organisms. |
