Cruise Info. | |
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Ship name (ship code) | FRV Scotia (747S) |
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Cruise identifier | 5/66 |
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Cruise period | 1966-06-28 — 1966-07-25 |
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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 | Tracking of parachute drogues. Successful.
Surveying the Norwegian Deeps was delayed by poor weather conditions. |
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Chief scientist | John H Steele (Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
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Cruise report | (0.19 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) | |
Current meters | Description: drogues |
Chemical oceanography | |
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Oxygen | Description: surface samples |
Phosphate | Description: surface samples |
Phosphate | Description: phosphate free water samples collected |
Nitrate | Description: surface samples |
Silicate | Description: surface samples |
Other chemical oceanographic measurements | Quantity: number of samples = 12 Description: particulate organic carbon |
Biology and fisheries | |
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Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence) | Quantity: number of samples = 71 Description: chlorophyll a |
Phytoplankton | Quantity: number of stations = 10 Description: standard net samples |
Zooplankton | Quantity: number of hauls = 71 Description: Gulf III samples |
Zooplankton | Description: multi-depth indcators |
Pelagic fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 20 Description: Wing trawl including: haddock, whiting and herring |
Demersal fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 20 Description: Wing trawl including: cod |
Demersal fish | Description: sand eels, red gunards, tusk, adult male skate echinoids and lemon sole collected |
Crustaceans | Quantity: number of hauls = 20 Description: Wing trawl including: nephrops |
Taggings | Quantity: number of specimens = 98 Description: cod |
Other biological/fisheries measurement | Description: incidence of nematodes in cod recorded |
Other biological/fisheries measurement | Description: haddock stomachs; and intestinal tracks of cod, haddock and whiting collected |
Geology and geophysics | |
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Single-beam echosounding | Description: records |