FRV Scotia 7/61
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | FRV Scotia (747S) |
| Cruise identifier | 7/61 |
| Cruise period | 1961-09-06 — 1961-09-26 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Fisheries |
| Objectives | Hydrography, plankton, fishing, Nephrops and echosounding surveys. |
| Chief scientist | Robert Johnston (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) | |
| Subsurface temperature and salinity measurements | |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Phytoplankton | Quantity: number of experiments = 1 Description: culture testing the effects of various plankton extracts on phytoplankton growth |
| Zooplankton | Description: Gulf III and Plankton Indicator hauls at every station, other samples taken with 1m silk netsand standard nets |
| Pelagic fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 34 Description: herring, haddock, whiting and other fish |
| Demersal fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 34 Description: cod, small gadoids, lemon sole, plaice, megrim, witch, turbot and other fish |
| Crustaceans | Quantity: number of hauls = 34 Description: nephrops |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Single-beam echosounding | Description: continuous record |
