Cruise summary report
Cruise Info. | |
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Ship name (ship code) | FRV Scotia (747S) |
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Cruise identifier | 9/59 |
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Cruise period | 1959-10-06 — 1959-10-28 |
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Status | Completed |
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Port of departure | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
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Port of return | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
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Purpose | Fisheries |
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Objectives | Trawling, plankton, hydrography and echo-sounding surveys. |
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Chief scientist | Zbigniew Kabata (Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
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Cruise report | (0.21 MB) |
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Ocean/sea areas | |
General | North Sea North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) |
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Specific | west of the Orkney and Shetland Isles |
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Measurements | |
Physical oceanography | |
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Surface measurements underway (T,S) | |
Subsurface temperature and salinity measurements | |
Surface drifters/drifting buoys | Quantity: number of deployments = 95 Description: 5 drift bottles released at 19 stations |
Chemical oceanography | |
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Oxygen | Description: surface dissolved oxygen values |
Phosphate | Description: depleted values |
Biology and fisheries | |
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Phytoplankton | Description: surface tow net |
Zooplankton | Description: surface tow net |
Eggs and larvae | Quantity: number of stations = 19 Description: herring larval survey |
Demersal fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 20 Description: otter trawl, roundfish survey |
Geology and geophysics | |
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Single-beam echosounding | Description: run as continuously as possible |