FRV Scotia 5/66
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | FRV Scotia (747S) |
| Cruise identifier | 5/66 |
| Cruise period | 1966-06-28 — 1966-07-25 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Fisheries |
| Objectives | Tracking of parachute drogues. Successful.
Surveying the Norwegian Deeps was delayed by poor weather conditions. |
| Chief scientist | John H Steele (Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.19 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Surface measurements underway (T,S) | |
| Current meters | Description: drogues |
| Chemical oceanography | |
| Oxygen | Description: surface samples |
| Phosphate | Description: phosphate free water samples collected |
| Phosphate | Description: surface samples |
| Nitrate | Description: surface samples |
| Silicate | Description: surface samples |
| Other chemical oceanographic measurements | Quantity: number of samples = 12 Description: particulate organic carbon |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| 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 | Description: sand eels, red gunards, tusk, adult male skate echinoids and lemon sole collected |
| Demersal fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 20 Description: Wing trawl including: cod |
| Crustaceans | Quantity: number of hauls = 20 Description: Wing trawl including: nephrops |
| Taggings | Quantity: number of specimens = 98 Description: cod |
| Other biological/fisheries measurement | Description: haddock stomachs; and intestinal tracks of cod, haddock and whiting collected |
| Other biological/fisheries measurement | Description: incidence of nematodes in cod recorded |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Single-beam echosounding | Description: records |
