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Figure 25

Description

Figure 25. Net WP2 as recommended by working group Number 2 of theScientific Committee on Oceanic Research in 1966. Plan of the net on left.Specimen collector on the right. This net was meant to collect zooplankton fromthe upper 200 meters of the water column. It was first tested by Paul Smith ofthe U. S. Bureau of Commercial Fisheries in the NE Pacific in 1966.

Credit

Oceanographic Museum of Monaco

Collection

Voyage to Inner Space
History of Oceanography Collection
The Early Instruments - Collections of the Oceanographic Museum at Monaco
Biologic Sampling Apparatus