{"id":4282,"date":"2011-05-19T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T17:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mlmlblog.wordpress.com\/?p=4282"},"modified":"2011-05-19T09:00:08","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T17:00:08","slug":"basket-case-a-tangled-catch-from-the-deep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2011\/05\/19\/basket-case-a-tangled-catch-from-the-deep\/","title":{"rendered":"Basket Case: A Tangled Catch from the Deep"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4283\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4283\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/05\/basket-stars.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4283\" title=\"Basket stars\" src=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/05\/basket-stars.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/05\/basket-stars.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/05\/basket-stars-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4283\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo: E. Loury<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>by<a title=\"Erin\u00a0Loury\" href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/students\/erin-loury\/\"> Erin Loury<\/a>, Ichthyology Lab<\/p>\n<p>The fishing practice of bottom-trawling, which involves dragging a weighted net across the seafloor to scoop up deep-dwelling fish, has some obvious downsides: the net often indiscriminately collects everything else in its path.\u00a0 Despite its potential destructive consequences to marine habitats, scientists sometimes use trawling on a small scale as a collection method, and to survey what animals are present in deep areas that are otherwise hard to access.<\/p>\n<p>This haul from a government fishing survey near southern California yielded a bonanza of basket stars, a type of brittle star with many branching arms.\u00a0 You can also spot rockfishes, urchins, crabs and sponges amongst the catch.\u00a0 Though trawling may clear a swath of the seafloor, there are few other means to collect deep-sea animals to inspect an study them.\u00a0 Advances in underwater robotic technology provide one avenue for less destructive studies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Erin Loury, Ichthyology Lab The fishing practice of bottom-trawling, which involves dragging a weighted net across the seafloor to scoop up deep-dwelling fish, has some obvious downsides: the net often indiscriminately collects everything else in its path.\u00a0 Despite its potential destructive consequences to marine habitats, scientists sometimes use trawling on a small scale as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":291,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[158],"class_list":["post-4282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-invertebrates"],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"MLML Student Life","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/291"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}