Last Saturday we took part in a workshop about saltwater marshes, held at LUMCON. Following a lecture on marshes by researcher Alex Kolker, we went out on the Acadiana, one of LUMCON’s research vessels. And we saw dolphins!
Once we reached Terrebonne Bay, we ran a trawl net behind the boat for about 10 minutes. Then we pulled up the net (see video) to take a look at what critters were swimming in the water column. Here’s video of a pufferfish that we caught:
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- A shrimp boat
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- Trawling behind the boat
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- Checking out the contents of the trawl net
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- A shrimp
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- The contents of the trawl net
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- Crab, with a speared fish
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- Checking out the contents of the trawl net
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- Squid
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- Ali got inked on by the squid!
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- Checking out the contents of the trawl net
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- Nils with his indestructible camera
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- Ali on the pontoon boat
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- Murt telling us about saltwater marshes
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- Exploring the marsh
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- Getting off the pontoon boat
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- Spartina, a type of marsh grass
That looks like it was a great trip out! Any idea how much ink the squid can produce in CC’s?