| Cruise Info. | |
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| Ship name (ship code) | FRV Scotia (747S) |
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| Cruise identifier | 2/66 |
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| Cruise period | 1966-04-04 — 1966-04-20 |
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| Status | Completed |
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| Port of departure | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
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| Port of return | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
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| Purpose | Fisheries |
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| Objectives | Delayed sailing due to over running of the refit. Trawling, hydrographic and planktn sampling. |
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| Chief scientist | James A Adams (Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
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| Cruise report | (0.21 MB) |
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| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
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| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
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| Surface measurements underway (T,S) | Description: throughout cruise |
| Surface drifters/drifting buoys | Description: drift indicators released at standard positions |
| Chemical oceanography | |
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| Phosphate | Description: samples taken at a few positions |
| Nitrate | Description: samples taken at a few positions |
| Silicate | Description: samples taken at a few positions |
| Biology and fisheries | |
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| Phytoplankton | Description: sampling with 1m net and plankton indicator |
| Zooplankton | Quantity: number of samples = 44 Description: Gulf III |
| Zooplankton | Description: sampling with 1m net and plankton indicator |
| Pelagic fish | Description: Wing trawl including: haddock, whiting and herring |
| Demersal fish | Description: Wing trawl including: cod |
| Crustaceans | Description: Wing trawl including: nephrops |
| Taggings | Quantity: number of specimens = 9 Description: cod |
| Other biological/fisheries measurement | Quantity: number of samples = 262 Description: fish blood |
| Other biological/fisheries measurement | Description: eye lens extracts |
| Other biological/fisheries measurement | Description: intestinal tracks of whiting, haddock and cod collected |
| Other biological/fisheries measurement | Description: haddock and cod stomachs collected |
| Other biological/fisheries measurement | Description: incidence of nematodes in cod recorded |
| Geology and geophysics | |
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| Single-beam echosounding | Description: records |