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A basket full of small squid sorted out after the trawl.

August 12, 2013
Sometimes scientists catch squid while surveying walleye pollock. Would you like eyes with that?

Photo: Amie Ell

After a trawl, the crew dumps the load of fish into a bin. Inside the lab we can raise or lower this bin to control the amount of fish coming onto a conveyor belt. Once the fish are on the belt the scientists decide how they will be separated. We separate the pollock according to age into baskets. At this time we also pull out any other sea creatures that are not pollock. So far we have pulled up quite a few jellyfish, a lumpsucker, shrimp, squid (pictured), eulachon, and capelin. These are also weighed, measured, and in some cases frozen per request of scientists not currently on board." - Amie Ell
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