FRV Scotia 0398S
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | FRV Scotia (749S) |
| Cruise identifier | 0398S |
| Cruise period | 1998-02-14 — 1998-03-06 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. Demersal trawling survey of the grounds off the north and west coast of Scotland and Irish Sea.
2. To obtain nephrops samples from the Little Halibut Bank area. |
| Chief scientist | Kenneth A Coull (Fisheries Research Services Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.15 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea Irish Sea and St. George's Channel North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) |
| Specific | North and west coasts of Scotland |
| Track charts |  |
| Measurements | |
| Chemical oceanography | |
| Radioactivity | Quantity: number of samples = 2 Description: Samples for Caesium analysis |
| Contamination | |
| Other contaminant measurements | Quantity: number of hauls = 4 Description: Hauls for polluted neprops |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Pelagic fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 55 Description: Trawl hauls |
| Demersal fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 55 Description: Trawl hauls |
