November 27, 2024 — NOAA Fisheries says a new, innovative net design will help the agency improve and streamline its fisheries surveys along the West Coast.
Developed together with Ocean Gold Seafoods and Seattle-based net manufacturer Swan Nets, the Multi-Function Trawl net allows NOAA research vessels to harvest fish at different depths. That enables a research vessel to set the net for midwater depths to catch Pacific hake during the day, and then adjust the net for surface level trawling to catch sardines and anchovies at night.