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Finding Flatfishes

June 8, 2020
Crewmembers sort juvenile flatfishes out of the catch from a beam trawl on a 2010 Bering Sea fisheries survey.

Photo: Thomas Ward

The beam trawl is used to study settlement and nursery areas for age-0 flatfishes. This is probably what most people would associate with net fishing. When the haul comes up there is an assortment of organisms in it. The catch is dumped in to a kiddie pool and we gather around it and start to sort, flopping flat fish and all.
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