FRV Explorer 2/82
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | FRV Explorer (74EX) |
| Cruise identifier | 2/82 |
| Cruise period | 1982-02-06 — 1982-02-25 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1) To take part in the ICES Young Fish Survey in the North Sea.
2) From the 13/02/1982 til the 14/02/1982 'Explorer' docked in Ebsjerg to exchange information and scientific samples with the Danish Fisheries Institute and the French research vessel 'Thalassa' 3) Cod, haddock, whiting and saithe were sexed and aged 4) Preliminary data was exchanged with 'Tridens' on a regular basis during the duration of the cruise |
| Chief scientist | Andrew W Newton (Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
| Project | IYFS |
| Coordinating body | ICES |
| Cruise report |  (0.17 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Specific | North Sea, Arbroath, Firth of Forth, Dogger Bank, German Bight, Ebsjerg, Danish coast, Fair Isle grounds, Shetland Isles, Orkneys, Moray Firth |
| Track charts |  |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Water bottle stations | Quantity: number of stations = 38 Description: top & bottom |
| Chemical oceanography | |
| Radioactivity | Quantity: number of stations = 3 |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Eggs and larvae | Quantity: number of hauls = 54 Description: pathology, 2 night hauls for pre-metamorphosis herring larvae were made in 28 of the statistical squares in which bottom trawling took place |
| Demersal fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 38 Description: GOV trawls in 33 different squares |
