FRV Mara 14B/64
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | FRV Mara (74MR) |
| Cruise identifier | 14B/64 |
| Cruise period | 1964-12-03 — 1964-12-16 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Fort William, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Buckie, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1) Testing new lowering cage for tagged fish
2) Whiting tagging 3) Fishing with a trawl, seine net and hand lines Bad weather kept ''Mara'' in port in Oban until the 09/12/1964. The scientific staff left the ship on the 16/12/1964 in Aberdeen, the ship meanwhile proceeding to Buckie via the Pentalnd Firth |
| Chief scientist | John R G Hislop (Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.04 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland |
| Specific | Clyde, Crinian Canal, Loch Long, Bute Channel |
| Measurements | |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Taggings | Quantity: number of specimens = 34 Description: Taggings of 11 whiting, 11 cod, 12 haddock |
