Every Monday morning, the researchers assisting with the GSO Fish Trawl meet at Wickford Shipyard, boarding URI’s research vessel, the RV Cap’n Bert, to carry on a scientific tradition that began in 1959. With over 65 years of sampling data, the GSO Fish Trawl Survey is one of the longest-running studies of bottom fish and invertebrate populations in the world.

GSO students sample two Narragansett Bay locations—Fox Island and Whale Rock—where they track changes in the bay’s ecosystem.

Watch this episode of Ocean Classroom (Spots) to learn more about the GSO Fish Trawl Survey.

Ocean Classroom (Spots) is made possible by the Devereux Ocean Foundation, Inc.

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