FRV Scotia 0588S_2
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | FRV Scotia (749S) |
| Cruise identifier | 0588S_2 |
| Cruise period | 1988-05-21 — 1988-05-31 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | To perform a check monitoring survey on sewage sludge dump grounds off the Forth, integrating environmental and fish disease studies, and to carry out comparative fish disease surveys in the Moary Firth and vicinity of Orkney and Shetland. |
| Chief scientist | A H McVicar (Scottish Office Agriculture and Fisheries Department Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.05 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) |
| Specific | Firth of Forth, Moray Firth, Orkney, Fair Isle |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Transparency (eg transmissometer) | |
| Other physical oceanographic measurements | Description: acoustic stations |
| Chemical oceanography | |
| Radioactivity | |
| Contamination | |
| Suspended matter | |
| Petroleum residues | |
| Bottom deposits | Quantity: number of samples = 3 |
| Other contaminant measurements | Description: video |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Zoobenthos | |
| Demersal fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 20 Description: pathology |
| Other biological/fisheries measurement | Description: hydrocarbon concentrations |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Grab | Quantity: number of deployments = 22 |
| Core - soft bottom | Quantity: number of cores = 22 |
| Bottom photography | Description: video |
