Tossing one of the 5 cod-ends attached to the MOCNESS.
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Cedric Guigand, University of Miami, tosses one of the 5 cod-ends attached to the MOCNESS over the stern of the R/V Walton Smith. It will concentrate the many planktonic organisms gathered up by one of the nets opened at a particular depth.

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