Equipment Used: Otter Trawl
Estimated Catch: See below
Description of catch:
- 2 Spider crabs
- 3 Green eyes
- 1 Sea urchin
- 3 Sea robins
- 1 Spotted hake
- Tube worms
- Shrimp
Other Observations: This net came up inside-out, so we were surprised to find anything in it! In addition to the catch noted above, we also found lots of black plastic pieces from the float that imploded. The spider crabs’ bodies were about four inches in diameter, but the long legs made the animals about a foot across. The sea robins have pectoral fins that have been modified into "legs" so they can walk along the sea floor.
Equipment Used: Otter Trawl
Estimated Catch: See below
Description of catch:
- 1 Flounder (right-sided)
- 2 Slime nose fish
- 1 Hake
- 1 Scorpion fish
- 1 Octopus
- 1 Tunicate
- 5 Tube worms
- 1 Comb jelly
- Chain dogfish
Other Observations: The trawl across
the bottom is 30 minutes, but it took three hours to pull this net.
It took over an hour to put the net down and another hour to bring the net up.
Equipment Used: Otter Trawl
Estimated Catch: 75 fish of different types, 15 gallons of coral, lots of invertebrates
Description of catch:
- 3 Hagfish
- 2 Blackbelly rosefish
- 13 Spider crabs
- 18 Squat lobsters
- 3 Batfish
- 1 Octopus
- 1 Squid
- 65 Small brittle stars
- 3 Large sea urchins
- 6 Small sea urchins
Other Observations: This catch took an incredible amount of time to search through. The little brittle stars were very difficult to find, but were important for Martha to take back to the Smithsonian.
