Cruise Info. | |
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Ship name (ship code) | FRV Scotia (747S) |
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Cruise identifier | 2/61 |
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Cruise period | 1961-03-01 — 1961-04-21 |
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Status | Completed |
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Port of departure | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
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Port of return | Leith, United Kingdom |
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Purpose | Fisheries |
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Objectives | Trawling, Nephrops, plankton, hydrography & echo-sounding surveys. |
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Chief scientist | John H Steele (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 |
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Measurements | |
Physical oceanography | |
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Surface measurements underway (T,S) | Quantity: number of stations = 20 Description: surface and bottom samples + additional |
Subsurface temperature and salinity measurements | Quantity: number of stations = 20 Description: surface and bottom samples + additional |
Chemical oceanography | |
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Phosphate | Quantity: number of stations = 20 Description: surface and bottom samples + additional |
Nitrate | Quantity: number of stations = 20 Description: surface and bottom samples + additional |
Silicate | Quantity: number of stations = 20 Description: surface and bottom samples + additional |
Biology and fisheries | |
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Primary productivity | Description: line of productivity stations; herring environmental survey; trawling survey |
Phytoplankton | Quantity: number of stations = 20 Description: Gulf III samples and plankton indicator; 1m tow nets and standard samples at selected stations |
Zooplankton | Quantity: number of stations = 20 Description: Gulf III samples and plankton indicator; 1m tow nets and standard samples at selected stations |
Pelagic fish | Description: line of productivity stations; herring environmental survey; trawling survey |
Pelagic fish | Quantity: number of stations = 20 Description: trawling survey: herring and whiting |
Demersal fish | Quantity: number of stations = 20 Description: trawling survey: Sebastes viviparus |
Other biological/fisheries measurement | Description: whiting gall bladders collected |
Other biological/fisheries measurement | Description: cod examined for nematodes |
Geology and geophysics | |
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Single-beam echosounding | Description: run continuously |