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Underwater Camera + Trawl Net = CamTrawl!

May 2, 2016
Crewmembers attach an underwater camera called the CamTrawl to the trawl net. CamTrawl takes photos of fish as they enter the net.

Photo: Virginia Warren

My students know a good bit about my previous Teacher at Sea experience out of Woods Hole, Massachusetts where we used the HabCam to look at the ocean floor. With that knowledge in mind a couple of my students asked me if there was a way that we were able to look at the fish while they were still in the water. The simple answer to that question is yes. While my previous TAS experience used the HabCam, the Oscar Dyson uses a CamTrawl. The CamTrawl is attached to the net and it records pictures as fish enter the cod end of the net.
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