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A Releasing Apparatus for Horizontally Towed Plankton Nets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

F. S. Russell
Affiliation:
Assistant Naturalist at the Plymouth Laboratory.

Extract

While experimenting on the vertical distribution of plankton in comparatively shallow waters I found it necessary to devise a releasing apparatus for use with horizontally towed plankton nets. Under existing working conditions there were four circumstances for which the instrument had to be adapted:

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1925

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