FRV Scotia 4/59
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | FRV Scotia (747S) |
| Cruise identifier | 4/59 |
| Cruise period | 1959-05-02 — 1959-05-21 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Fisheries |
| Objectives | Parasitological survey of whiting.
Hydrobiological survey. |
| Chief scientist | Zbigniew Kabata (Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.18 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Specific | Shetland-Norway |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Surface measurements underway (T,S) | Quantity: number of stations = 31 Description: hydrobiological survey |
| Surface measurements underway (T,S) | Quantity: number of stations = 31 Description: samples taken |
| Subsurface temperature and salinity measurements | Quantity: number of stations = 31 Description: hydrobiological survey |
| Chemical oceanography | |
| Oxygen | Quantity: number of stations = 31 Description: samples taken |
| Phosphate | Quantity: number of stations = 31 Description: samples taken |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Phytoplankton | Quantity: number of samples = 31 Description: plankton indicator samples collected |
| Zooplankton | Quantity: number of samples = 31 Description: plankton indicator samples collected |
| Demersal fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 18 Description: parasitological survey in whiting |
| Crustaceans | Description: nephrops survey |
| Other biological/fisheries measurement | Quantity: number of hauls = 18 Description: parasitological survey in whiting |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Single-beam echosounding | Quantity: number of track lines = 3 |
