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Scuba equipped fishing gear scientists from the Seattle Exploratory Fishing andGear Research Base hang onto the headrope of a 400-mesh Eastern otter trawl toobserve the reaction of fish entering the net

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Scuba equipped fishing gear scientists from the Seattle Exploratory Fishing andGear Research Base hang onto the headrope of a 400-mesh Eastern otter trawl toobserve the reaction of fish entering the net. (Image credit: NOAA Central Library Historical Fisheries Collection | William L. High)

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NOAA Central Library Historical Fisheries Collection

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William L. High