FRV Scotia 10/62
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | FRV Scotia (747S) |
| Cruise identifier | 10/62 |
| Cruise period | 1962-10-14 — 1962-10-31 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Fisheries |
| Objectives | Hydrography, plankton, chemistry, trawling and productivity. |
| Chief scientist | James A Adams (Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.12 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Surface measurements underway (T,S) | Description: measurements at all stations |
| Subsurface temperature and salinity measurements | Description: bottom measurements at all stations |
| Current meters | Quantity: number of observations = 500 Description: bottom current markers |
| Surface drifters/drifting buoys | Quantity: number of stations = 14 Description: drift bottles released |
| Chemical oceanography | |
| Oxygen | Description: all station surface samples, selected bottom samples |
| Phosphate | Description: all station surface samples, selected bottom samples |
| Nitrate | Description: all station surface samples, selected bottom samples |
| Silicate | Description: all station surface samples, selected bottom samples |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Primary productivity | Description: carbon bottom samples |
| Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence) | Description: chlorophyll samples |
| Phytoplankton | Description: Gulf III samples at all stations, selected 1m and standard net samples |
| Zooplankton | Description: Gulf III samples at all stations, selected 1m and standard net samples |
| Zooplankton | Quantity: number of experiments = 3 Description: feeding |
| Pelagic fish | Description: Vinge trawls included haddock, whiting and herring |
| Taggings | Quantity: number of specimens = 109 Description: 60 cod and 49 haddock |
| Other biological/fisheries measurement | Description: whiting gall bladders preserved and cod examined for nematodes |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Single-beam echosounding | Description: run continuously |
