A manta trawl is a net system for sampling the surface of the ocean. It resembles a manta ray, with metal wings and a broad mouth. The net it pulls is made of thin mesh, and the whole trawl is towed behind a scientific research vessel.[1] The manta trawl is useful for collecting samples from the surface of the ocean, such as sampling the plastic pieces making up the great Pacific garbage patch as well as the associated plankton.
^Moore, Charles."Trashed: across the Pacific Ocean, plastics, plastics, everywhere", Natural History, November, 2003
A mantatrawl is a net system for sampling the surface of the ocean. It resembles a manta ray, with metal wings and a broad mouth. The net it pulls is...
Manta rays are large rays belonging to the genus Mobula (formerly its own genus Manta). The larger species, M. birostris, reaches 7 m (23 ft) in width...
provide insights into the vertical distribution of the plankton The mantatrawl tows a net from a moving vessel along the surface of the water, collecting...
among studies. Floating debris typically is sampled with a neuston or mantatrawl net lined with 0.33 mm [0.013 in] mesh. Given the very high level of...
Anna; Rotander, Anna; Hassellöv, Martin (2020). "Comparison between mantatrawl and in situ pump filtration methods, and guidance for visual identification...
Anna; Rotander, Anna; Hassellöv, Martin (2020). "Comparison between mantatrawl and in situ pump filtration methods, and guidance for visual identification...
Anna; Rotander, Anna; Hassellöv, Martin (2020). "Comparison between mantatrawl and in situ pump filtration methods, and guidance for visual identification...
Anna; Rotander, Anna; Hassellöv, Martin (2020). "Comparison between mantatrawl and in situ pump filtration methods, and guidance for visual identification...
acoustic positioning systems used to track underwater vehicles and divers Mantatrawl – A net system for sampling the surface of the ocean Marine optical buoy...
Mobula munkiana, commonly known as the manta de monk, Munk's devil ray, pygmy devil ray, smoothtail mobula or Munk’s pygmy devil ray is a species of ray...
the third largest species in the genus Mobula, after the oceanic and reef manta rays. It is the only mobulid species that lives in the Mediterranean Sea...
family, and may reflect a mode of swimming similar to other rays such as manta rays. This species is aplacental viviparous, with litter sizes perhaps as...
surface tows with a Manta net are used to sample neuston. Supplementary sampling focuses on collection of juvenile and small fish via trawling techniques. This...
(1967). The batoid fishes of the east coast of southern Africa. Part 2: manta, eagle, duckbill, cownose, butterfly and sting rays[permanent dead link]...
cognitive capacities of fish include self-awareness, as seen in mirror tests. Manta rays and wrasses placed in front of a mirror repeatedly check whether their...
fisheries in some regions and is caught as bycatch in gill nets and by trawling in others. There are reports of landings in Indonesia, the Philippines...
species, such as the humpback whale, California gray whale, killer whale, manta ray, Humboldt squid and leatherback sea turtle, and the world's largest...
trawler, David Starr Jordan was designed and rigged for midwater trawling, bottom trawling, longline sets, plankton tows, oceanographic casts, ocean-bottom...
incidentally by commercial fisheries across many parts of its range, using bottom trawls, gillnets, bottom longlines, beach seines, and trammel nets. Because of...
catfish, eight cow-nose rays, nine eagle rays, 13 loggerhead turtles, five manta rays (all but one survived), eight shovelnose rays, three toadfish, four...
species that have been particularly hard hit are sharks and manta rays. In addition, shrimp trawling catches a large amount of non-target species, which are...
Mediterranean is also plagued by marine debris. A 1994 study of the seabed using trawl nets around the coasts of Spain, France and Italy reported a particularly...
is caused by human activities such as poaching, deforestation, bottom trawling in the oceans, unsustainable fishing methods, damming and dredging of streams...
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