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