FRV Scotia 5/62
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | FRV Scotia (747S) |
| Cruise identifier | 5/62 |
| Cruise period | 1962-04-27 — 1962-05-25 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Fisheries |
| Objectives | Hydrography, plankton, trawling and echo-sounding. |
| Chief scientist | George McPherson (Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.10 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Surface measurements underway (T,S) | Description: temperature |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Phytoplankton | Description: Gulf III samples |
| Zooplankton | Quantity: number of experiments = 9 Description: feeding |
| Zooplankton | Description: Gulf III samples |
| Pelagic fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 3 Description: Vinge trawl, 20 herring caught |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Single-beam echosounding | Description: to locate herring traces |
