Cruise summary report
Cruise Info. | |
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Ship name (ship code) | FRV Scotia (747S) |
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Cruise identifier | 5A/60 |
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Cruise period | 1960-06-15 — 1960-06-27 |
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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 | Westray Firth seal survey.
Echosounder survey of the west of Shetland herring grounds.
Hydro-biological work |
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Chief scientist | R G Lawrie (Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
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Cruise report | (0.18 MB) |
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Ocean/sea areas | |
General | North Sea |
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Measurements | |
Physical oceanography | |
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Surface measurements underway (T,S) | |
Surface measurements underway (T,S) | Description: productivity survey, salinity |
Subsurface temperature and salinity measurements | |
Chemical oceanography | |
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Phosphate | Description: productivity survey |
Nitrate | Description: productivity survey |
Biology and fisheries | |
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Primary productivity | Description: productivity survey, C14 samples |
Primary productivity | Description: productivity survey, Gulf III hauls |
Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence) | Description: productivity survey, chlorphyll and leptopel |
Phytoplankton | |
Zooplankton | |
Pelagic fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 21 |
Crustaceans | Quantity: number of hauls = 4 Description: nephrops |
Geology and geophysics | |
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Single-beam echosounding | |