FRV Scotia 5/59
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | FRV Scotia (747S) |
| Cruise identifier | 5/59 |
| Cruise period | 1959-06-13 — 1959-06-24 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Leith, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Fisheries |
| Objectives | Comparative trawling.
Nephrops survey. Hydrography (chemistry) and plankton surveys. |
| Chief scientist | James M Lamont (Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.14 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Specific | Buchan Deep and the Firth of Forth |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Surface measurements underway (T,S) | |
| Subsurface temperature and salinity measurements | |
| Chemical oceanography | |
| Oxygen | |
| Phosphate | |
| Nitrate | |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Phytoplankton | Description: standard and 1m silk oblique hauls |
| Zooplankton | Description: standard and 1m silk oblique hauls |
| Demersal fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 37 Description: chief marketable species: whiting and haddock |
| Demersal fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 37 Description: chief marketable species: plaice, lemon sole and codling |
| Crustaceans | Quantity: number of stations = 4 Description: nephrops survey, only found at 2 stations |
| Other biological/fisheries measurement | Quantity: number of specimens = 17550 Description: measured: 8730 whiting, 7530 haddock, 460 codling, 460 plaice and 370 lemon sole |
| Other biological/fisheries measurement | Description: scale and otolith samples taken |
| Other biological/fisheries measurement | Quantity: number of samples = 100 Description: haddock gall bladders preserved |
