FRV Scotia 6/59
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | FRV Scotia (747S) |
| Cruise identifier | 6/59 |
| Cruise period | 1959-07-04 — 1959-07-22 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Fisheries |
| Objectives | Hydrography, plankton, trawling and echosounding surveys. |
| Chief scientist | John B Tait (Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.21 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Surface measurements underway (T,S) | |
| Subsurface temperature and salinity measurements | |
| Surface drifters/drifting buoys | Description: surface drift bottles |
| Chemical oceanography | |
| Oxygen | Description: surface and bottom samples |
| Phosphate | Description: surface and bottom samples |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Phytoplankton | Description: standard net and oblique 1m silk net hauls |
| Zooplankton | Description: standard net and oblique 1m silk net hauls |
| Demersal fish | Quantity: number of specimens = 94 Description: roundfish: 57 haddock, 27 whiting and 10 cod |
| Taggings | Quantity: number of specimens = 94 Description: roundfish: 57 haddock, 27 whiting and 10 cod |
| Gear research | Description: multi-depth indicator hauls |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Single-beam echosounding | Description: herring traces |
