FRV Clupea 1086C
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | FRV Clupea (74CU) |
| Cruise identifier | 1086C |
| Cruise period | 1986-08-06 — 1986-08-25 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Buckie, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Buckie, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. The placement of 3 current meter moorings in the Northwest Shelf area.
2. A hydrographic survey of the Northwest Shelf with the deployment of drogues. 3. The working of the JONSIS line. 4. To deploy caged queen scallops off Calbeck Head and do a sediment survey of Sullom Voe, and fish for queen scallops within Sullum Voe. |
| Chief scientist | J H Anthony Martin (Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.07 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) |
| Specific | Northwest Shelf/ Sullom Voe |
| Track charts |  |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Water bottle stations | Quantity: number of stations = 92 |
| Current meters | Quantity: number of recoveries = 2 Description: recovered only;2731 hours |
| Surface drifters/drifting buoys | Quantity: number of deployments = 6 Description: parachute drogues |
| Chemical oceanography | |
| Oxygen | Quantity: number of stations = 6 |
| Phosphate | Quantity: number of stations = 12 |
| Nitrate | Quantity: number of stations = 12 |
| Silicate | Quantity: number of stations = 12 |
| Contamination | |
| Petroleum residues | Quantity: number of stations = 18 |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Primary productivity | Quantity: number of measurements = 54 |
| Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence) | Quantity: number of samples = 54 |
| Molluscs | Quantity: number of hauls = 16 |
