Moss Landing Marine Labs - Marine Operations

Moss Landing Marine Labs

R/V Point Sur - Nets

The nets pictured below offer a variety of ways to sample the water column. In addition to these large towing nets, the ship has two other smaller nets (which can be hand-deployed or towed) listed below.

Phytoplankton net, mesh size: 330 milli-micron

Zooplankton net, mesh size: 500 milli-micron

Beam Trawl

Epi-benthic, Invertebrate sampling mesh size: 1"

 

Tucker Trawl

Mid-water organism sampling net mesh size: 1/4"

 

 

Otter Trawl

Bottom fish sampling mesh size: 3/4"

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Marine Operations

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