FRV Scotia 8/61
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | FRV Scotia (747S) |
| Cruise identifier | 8/61 |
| Cruise period | 1961-10-08 — 1961-10-29 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Fisheries |
| Objectives | Nephrops survey (Firth of Forth).
Trawling. |
| Chief scientist | Zbigniew Kabata (Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.13 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Surface measurements underway (T,S) | Description: all stations |
| Subsurface temperature and salinity measurements | Description: bottom samples, all stations |
| Chemical oceanography | |
| Oxygen | Description: surface and bottom samples, all stations |
| Phosphate | Description: surface and bottom samples, all stations |
| Nitrate | Description: surface and bottom samples, all stations |
| Silicate | Description: surface and bottom samples, all stations |
| pH | Description: surface and bottom samples, all stations |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Phytoplankton | Quantity: number of stations = 6 |
| Zooplankton | Quantity: number of stations = 6 |
| Pelagic fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 3 Description: herring survey, only found in 1 of the hauls |
| Crustaceans | Description: nephrops survey |
| Other biological/fisheries measurement | Quantity: number of samples = 150 Description: whiting gall bladder |
| Other biological/fisheries measurement | Quantity: number of specimens = 260 Description: vertebral count on whiting |
