[shresearchdude]

We've been in Canadian waters for most of my shift,air temps in the 30's.
Due to very harsh bottom, the fact that our ship has only one complete net rigged and the fact that this ship was built with the most advanced technology of any in use research vessel our shift hasn't set a net all night and into this morning. When I say harsh bottom... the area has a history of eating nets- and I've watched the depth sounders- craggy drop offs, ridges, shoals and the type of stuff that eats nets up. When I say most advanced, I mean the ship has the quietest "footprints" of any research boat, and the most advanced recording devices(really expensive fish finders) on any research ship.
There were lobster pots all over the area near Nova Scotia and it seem like a slalom course at times.
Our ship was recording fish instead of netting them. The other boat, which uses a different style of net, has been doing all the fish catching. Prior to the other ship setting the net our ship would scout out an area of the bottom for them to drag along.
Our last net of my shift did have the following:
Lobsters
cod
haddock
witch flounder
sea ravens
atlantic herring
alewife
thorny skates
winter flounder
acadian redfish
silver hake
white hake
red hake
longhorn sculpin
and some others....

I can't download pics until I get back on land due to download restrictions, but I've got just a few to share.