FRV Scotia 5A/60
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | FRV Scotia (747S) |
| Cruise identifier | 5A/60 |
| Cruise period | 1960-06-15 — 1960-06-27 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Fisheries |
| Objectives | Westray Firth seal survey.
Echosounder survey of the west of Shetland herring grounds. Hydro-biological work |
| Chief scientist | R G Lawrie (Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.18 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Surface measurements underway (T,S) | Description: productivity survey, salinity |
| Surface measurements underway (T,S) | |
| Subsurface temperature and salinity measurements | |
| Chemical oceanography | |
| Phosphate | Description: productivity survey |
| Nitrate | Description: productivity survey |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Primary productivity | Description: productivity survey, Gulf III hauls |
| Primary productivity | Description: productivity survey, C14 samples |
| 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 | |
| Single-beam echosounding |
