FRV Clupea 0495C
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | FRV Clupea (74CU) |
| Cruise identifier | 0495C |
| Cruise period | 1995-02-28 — 1995-03-17 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Tarbert, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Fraserburgh, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To collect sea water samples from the Garroch Head sewage disposal site, and from areas adjacent to the disposal site, the microbiological analysis on FRV Clupea.
2. To collect sea water samples from the Garroch Head sewage sludge disposal site, and from areas adjacent to the disposal site, for measurement of suspended solid levels in the Marine Laboratory, Aberdeen. 3. To collect sea bed sediment samples from the Garroch Head sewage sludge disposal site, and from areas adjacent to the disposal site, for microbiological analysis on FRV Clupea. 4. To collect seabed sediment samples from the Garroch Head sewage sludge disposal site, and at locations adjacent to the disposal site, to collect samples of representative species for chemical analysis in the Marine Laboratory, Aberdeen. 5. To undertake a trawl survey at the Garroch Head sewage sludge disposal site, and at locations adjacent to the disposal site, to collect samples of representative species for chemical analysis in the Marine Laboratory, Aberdeen. 6. To collect sea water samples from the Wide Firth, Bay of Kirkwall and adjacent areas off the Orkney Isles, for microbiological analysis on FRV Clupea. 7. To collect seabed sediment samples from the Wide Firth, Bay of Kirkwall and adjacent areas off the Orkney Isles, for microbiological analysis on FRV Clupea. 8. To collect seabed sediment samples from the Wide Firth, Bay of Kirkwall and adjacent areas off the Orkney Isles, for chemical analysis in the Marine Laboratory, Aberdeen. 9. To collect seabed sediment samples from Clift Sound and Whiteness Voe, Shetland Isles, for biological analysis in the Marine Laboratory, Aberdeen. Abandoned due to adverse weather conditions. 10. To collect seabed sediment samples from the selected dredge spoil disposal sites in coastal waters off the Western Isles, Orkney Isles and Shetland Isles, and from selected sites in coastal waters around the Scottish mainland between the Firth of Clyde and Fraserburgh, for particle size and heavy metal analyses in the Marine Laboratory, Aberdeen. 11. To collect a supply of reference sea water off Cape Wrath, for oyster larvae bioassay experiments to be undertaken in the Marine Laboratory, Aberdeen. 12. To carry out enforcement visits under the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985 at a number of locations on the Isle of Arran. |
| Chief scientist | Derek Saward (Scottish Office Agriculture Environment and Fisheries Department Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.13 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) |
| Specific | Coastal waters off the Western Isles, Orkney and Shetland, Firth of Clyde and selected sites around the Scottish mainland |
| Track charts | (0.03 MB) |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Water bottle stations | Quantity: number of stations = 64 |
| Contamination | |
| Suspended matter | Quantity: number of stations = 26 Description: suspended solids measurements. |
| Other dissolved substances | |
| Bottom deposits | |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Demersal fish | Description: Samples of fish collected for heavy metal analysis |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Grab | Description: Grabs |
| Core - soft bottom | Description: Corer |
