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A chevron trap is retreived aboard the NOAA Ship Pisces in 2014
March 16, 2015
A chevron trap is retreived during the Southeast Fishery-Independent survey in 2014, dropping and retrieving traps is a real team effort, and Teacher at Sea participants often get to take part in the process and sort the catch!
Photo: Emina Mesanovic
Emina Mesanovic (TAS 2014) describes the difficult task of setting and retrieving chevron traps during her time on the Southeast Fishery-Independent Survey. "Dropping and retrieving traps is a real team effort, the night shift creates the maps, Zeb decides where to set the traps, the Pisces crew deploys and retrieves the traps and finally the fishery scientists collect and analyze the fish samples.Read the blog post
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13 photos for fisheries · Clear
October is National Seafood Month! Scientific surveys help NOAA gather data on important seafood species like red snapper.October 29, 2018
A female Magnificent Frigatebird spotted by TAS in the Gulf of Mexico.November 2, 2015
From lab to bridge, to engineering rooms, there is science in everything we do! Here are the engineers of NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson.September 28, 2015
Non-comprehensive anatomy of the scallop – by TAS15 Trevor Hance. Click to zoom.September 14, 2015
This Scrawled Cowfish is just one representative of an abundance of species captured during NOAA summer bottomtrawl survey in the GOMSeptember 7, 2015
Photophores on the Atlantic Midshipman (Porichthys plectrodon) are used to catch prey.July 13, 2015
Vellela vellela.June 8, 2015
Deckhands guide aboard the trawl net used in bottom surveys aboard the NOAA Ship Henry B. Bigelow.May 4, 2015
The Botcam is being deployed off the side of the Sette with the help of crew members Kelson and Johnathan.March 23, 2015
A chevron trap is retreived aboard the NOAA Ship Pisces in 2014March 16, 2015
A female Blue Crab with eggs captured during the SEAMAP survey aboard the NOAA R/V Oregon II in 2010.March 9, 2015
Members of the Squid Family, Gonotopsis borealis, the Armhook SquidJanuary 12, 2015