FRV Scotia 5/51
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | FRV Scotia (747S) |
| Cruise identifier | 5/51 |
| Cruise period | 1951-08-14 — 1951-09-05 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | Hydrography, plankton and trawling surveys.
Contact was made with the "Clupea" in the Moray Firth on September 4th and the two ships worked in co-operation to test the working of the pelagic trawl. |
| Chief scientist | Jake H Fraser (Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.13 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Subsurface temperature and salinity measurements | Description: A number of temperature, oxygen and phosphate measurements were collected during the cruise. |
| Chemical oceanography | |
| Oxygen | Description: A number of temperature, oxygen and phosphate measurements were collected during the cruise. |
| Phosphate | Description: A number of temperature, oxygen and phosphate measurements were collected during the cruise. |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Phytoplankton | Description: A number of plankton hauls took place during the cruise, good catches of phytoplankton were made. |
| Zooplankton | Description: A number of plankton hauls took place during the cruise, good catches of phytoplankton were made. |
| Pelagic fish | Description: A number of hauls were made throughout the cruise, samples of lemon sole, megrim and witch were collected. No. of hauls not noted. |
| Demersal fish | Description: A number of hauls were made throughout the cruise, samples of lemon sole, megrim and witch were collected. No. of hauls not noted. |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Multi-beam echosounding | Description: A number of echo-traces took place during the cruise. No. of echo-traces not noted. |
