FRV Explorer 10/73
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | FRV Explorer (74EX) |
| Cruise identifier | 10/73 |
| Cruise period | 1973-11-02 — 1973-11-26 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Kirkwall, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1) To tag demersal fish on offshore grounds in the northern North Sea
2) To evaluate fish condition and various designs of live fish cod-ends 3) To bring back live fish for the aquarium Gales drastically curtailed work throughout the cruise. ''Explorer'' put into Lerwick on the 12/11/1973 till the 13/11/1973 and the Simrad echosounder was repaired. An injured deckhand was put ashore on the 14/11/1973 in Lerwick and a sick stoker was landed at Kirkwell on the 17/11/1973 |
| Chief scientist | J A Gauld (Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.05 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Specific | Ling Bank, Balta, Auskerry, Copinsay, Clytheness |
| Measurements | |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Demersal fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 25 Description: 122 cod, 334 haddock, 1555 squalus, 167 plaice, 50 others. (approximately 80 haddock and whiting were brought back for the aquarium) |
| Taggings | Quantity: number of hauls = 25 Description: 122 cod, 334 haddock, 1555 squalus, 167 plaice, 50 others. (approximately 80 haddock and whiting were brought back for the aquarium) |
