FRV Scotia 2A/64
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | FRV Scotia (747S) |
| Cruise identifier | 2A/64 |
| Cruise period | 1964-03-03 — 1964-03-21 |
| Status | Completed |
| Purpose | Fisheries |
| Objectives | Hydrography, plankton, trawling and echo-sounding. |
| Chief scientist | Robert Johnston (Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.09 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Surface measurements underway (T,S) | |
| Subsurface temperature and salinity measurements | |
| Surface drifters/drifting buoys | Quantity: number of observations = 4 Description: dahn buoys |
| Surface drifters/drifting buoys | Quantity: number of observations = 19 Description: drift bottles |
| Chemical oceanography | |
| Oxygen | |
| Phosphate | |
| Nitrate | |
| Nitrite | |
| Ammonia | |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Phytoplankton | Quantity: number of samples = 39 Description: plankton collections by: 24 Gulf III, 10 1metre silk townets and 5 standard nets |
| Zooplankton | Quantity: number of samples = 39 Description: plankton collections by: 24 Gulf III, 10 1metre silk townets and 5 standard nets |
| Pelagic fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 23 Description: including haddock, whiting and herring |
| Demersal fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 23 Description: trawls including: cod, dogfish and gadoids |
| Demersal fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 23 Description: including haddock, whiting and herring |
| Crustaceans | Quantity: number of hauls = 23 Description: nephrops |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Single-beam echosounding | Description: continuous record except in bad weather |
| Other geological/geophysical measurements | Quantity: number of samples = 5 Description: bottom sediment using mud bucket |
