On the offchance(!) that you aren't currently following the official Porcupine Abyssal Plain (PAP) Observatory blog, I thought I'd leave you a wee link to the post I wrote for them at the weekend about our trawling work. Enjoy!
https://papobservatory.wordpress.com/2015/07/06/gone-fishing/
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| Bringing the nets on board |
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| The armoured grenadier, Coryphaenoides armatus, caught from 4850 m down! |
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| Some of the other animals from the trawl catches. Left: Brittle stars (Ophiuroidea); Middle top: A sea cucumber (Holothuroidea); Middle: an Abyssal Grenadier (Coryphaenoides profundicolus); Middle bottom: an isopod; Right: A sea spider (Pycnogonidae) |
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