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Deploying vertical net from the A-frame.

Deploying vertical net from the A-frame.
Deploying vertical net from the A-frame.
Deploying vertical net from the A-frame.
Deploying vertical net from the A-frame.
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(60°29′31″N, 179°13′1″W)
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Linder, Christopher L.
Deploying vertical net from the A-frame.
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04/13/2009
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Caption from Polar Discovery: Early yesterday morning, the zooplankton team put their vertical net over the back of the boat, dropped it straight down into the water, and pulled it back up to catch tiny animals. They were looking mainly for copepods, little crustaceans that are even smaller than krill, but still visible to the naked eye. "Look at all those big juicy copepods," says Phil Alatalo, a marine biologist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
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The zooplankton team aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy put their vertical net over the back of the boat during an April 2009 cruise in the Bering Sea to study how the changing sea ice affects the plankton food web. They were looking mainly for copepods ? little crustaceans that are even smaller than krill, but still visible to the naked eye. ?Look at all those big juicy copepods,? says Phil Alatalo, a marine biologist at WHOI.
Photo by Chris Linder
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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