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FRV Scotia 0384S
Cruise summary report
Cruise Info. | |
Ship name (ship code) | FRV Scotia (749S) |
Cruise identifier | 0384S |
Cruise period | 1984-03-25 — 1984-04-05 |
Status | Completed |
Port of departure | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
Port of return | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
Purpose | Trials |
Objectives | Tests of fish-finding echosounders.
Experiments with free fall camera system. Evaluation of new scanning sonar. |
Chief scientist | J Ian Edwards (Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland Aberdeen Marine Laboratory), Sinclair T Forbes (Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
Cruise report | (0.10 MB) |
Ocean/sea areas | |
General | North Sea Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) |
Specific | North coast of Scotland, St Kilda, Minch, west coast of Scotland, Moray Firth |
Measurements | |
Biology and fisheries | |
Acoustic reflection on marine organisms. | Quantity: number of deployments = 4 Description: survey: distribution, biomass determination |
Geology and geophysics | |
Long/short range side scan sonar | Quantity: number of hauls = 100 |