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September 13, 2021
A school of jackknife fish (Equetus lanceolatus) as seen by the Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) over the West Florida Shelf.

Photo: NOAA Fisheries

Today we made three ROV dives on the West Florida Shelf, roughly 100 miles off the west coast of Florida... The object was to conduct a fish survey with respect to species presence and abundance as a function of bottom habitat types. Essentially, we were looking for good hard-bottom fish habitats within an area being proposed to the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council as a new Marine Protected Area (MPA).
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15 photos for plankton · Clear

Don’t Forget the Phytoplankton!May 28, 2019Netting the Small StuffMarch 4, 2019This Tasty-Looking Ctenophore is called a “Sea Gooseberry”February 19, 2018It’s the Little Things in Life (like Plankton)October 9, 2017Just what IS “plankton,” anyway? Does this small swimming crab count?February 27, 2017Just what IS “plankton,” anyway? Does this small swimming crab count?February 27, 2017Hard to tell from here, but some of the plankton in this jar are really tiny larval fish– “ichthyoplankton.”February 1, 2016This is a close-up of the “cod end” of the bongo, where the plankton get funneled into.November 9, 2015At the NOAA lab in Pascagoula, scientist Jessica Kirkham sorts through and identifies icthyoplankton (fish) and invertebrates.October 5, 2015The Mola (or Ocean Sunfish) lies on one side just under the water’s surface and eats jellyfish.August 17, 2015This jar of copepods was collected using a bongo net and will be sent off for genetic analysis!May 25, 2015Salps are a colony of tunicates and are actually more closely related to humans than shrimp are!April 27, 2015
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