FRV Scotia 4/65
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | FRV Scotia (747S) |
| Cruise identifier | 4/65 |
| Cruise period | 1965-05-05 — 1965-05-23 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Fisheries |
| Objectives | Ship's sailing was dealyed due to personnel illness. The Falden-Rattray line was completed.
A herring-environmental survey was undertaken around 57° N. |
| Chief scientist | James A Adams (Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.16 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Surface measurements underway (T,S) | |
| Subsurface temperature and salinity measurements | |
| Chemical oceanography | |
| Oxygen | Description: samples collected at all depths at selected stations |
| Phosphate | Description: samples collected at all depths at selected stations |
| Nitrate | Description: samples collected at all depths at selected stations |
| Silicate | Description: samples collected at all depths at selected stations |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence) | Description: chlorophyll a samples |
| Phytoplankton | Quantity: number of samples = 36 Description: plankton indicator |
| Phytoplankton | Description: Gulf III samples |
| Zooplankton | Quantity: number of samples = 36 Description: plankton indicator |
| Zooplankton | Quantity: number of experiments = 8 Description: feeding |
| Zooplankton | Description: Gulf III samples |
| Eggs and larvae | Description: bivalve larvae collected |
| Pelagic fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 1 Description: herring |
| Demersal fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 1 Description: cod and rough dab |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Single-beam echosounding | Description: survey |
