Monday, 23 January 2017

Sepia Boat Survey day with the MBA

Today, I enjoyed a beautiful sunny morning aboard Sepia, the MBAs' research vessel.

We conducted a standard trawl which consists of making two bottom trawls to identify, count and record all life we find. In the trawl we picked up: poor cod, whiting, plaice, octopus, harbour crabs, squid, cuttlefish and more. I can learn alot of see and handling the fish and gain experience from the rest of the crew. 


The MBA has been conducting these surveys for over 100 years making this long-term data set useful to investigate changes and patterns. 






Thanks to all the crew, see you next time. 


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