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Fishing for Data

April 23, 2018
Crewmembers pick through a trawl net that has been brought back on board with a sample.

Photo: Tom Jenkins

Fishing aboard the Henry B. Bigelow is an impressive feat of engineering. Once in the water and fishing the net is about 36 feet across at the opening (the wings), and about 90 feet long; which is loaded with sensors, is fed out the back using a set of winches. These reactive winches control the wires which manipulate the net to ensure the best trawl possible which will hopefully result in a representative sample for the science team to process.
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