Over at National Geographic you can read all about Fish Trap! a great piece of equipment designed right here at MBARI.
If that is not enough for you then head over to NPR where you can catch an listen to NPR's On Point discussing Deep Ocean Ecology with Katrin Linse (part of the recent expedition to survery deep Antarctic biodiversity), Lisa Levin (a deep-sea biologist from Scripps), Tim Shank (a deep-sea biologist from Woods Hole), and Claire Nouvian (author of the The Deep).
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