FRV Scotia 0788S
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | FRV Scotia (749S) |
| Cruise identifier | 0788S |
| Cruise period | 1988-07-06 — 1988-07-26 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | Objectives Part 1:
1. To participate in an ICES-coordinated acoustic survey of North Sea herring. 2. To carry out target strength measurements on identified herring traces. 3. To obtain samples of herring and other pelagic fish for age, maturation and fecundity analysis. 4. To obtain water samples for radio-caesium monitoring. Objective Part 2: To undertake an environmental sampling programme in the vicinity of the Piper Alpha platform remains. |
| Chief scientist | Roger S Bailey (Scottish Office Agriculture and Fisheries Department Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
| Project | Herring Larval Survey |
| Coordinating body | ICES |
| Cruise report |  (0.08 MB) (0.05 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea Norwegian Sea North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) |
| Specific | Orkney, Shetland, NW North Sea |
| Track charts | (0.02 MB) |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Surface measurements underway (T,S) | |
| Water bottle stations | Quantity: number of stations = 6 |
| Chemical oceanography | |
| Trace elements | |
| Radioactivity | Quantity: number of stations = 6 |
| Contamination | |
| Suspended matter | |
| Trace metals | |
| Petroleum residues | |
| Chlorinated hydrocarbons | |
| Other dissolved substances | |
| Bottom deposits | |
| Contaminants in organisms | |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence) | |
| Phytoplankton | |
| Zooplankton | |
| Pelagic fish | |
| Demersal fish | Description: monitoring, toxicology |
