Bit of a drag

We blew the strobe light on our camera late day 2. While we re-soldered the connections, the ship changed tasks and brought out the trawl.

The trawl collected fish, kelp, shrimps, and sea cucumbers from 410 m depth. We will use stable isotope measures from these animals and examine the community composition to explore the influence on drift kelp in these areas.

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Our trawl from the 'kelp area' was full of kelp (left) and our trawl from our 'no kelp control area' came up with a tiny piece of algae (right)... a promising start.