Instrument: Nordic 264 Rope Trawl

Instrument Short Name: Nordic Rope Trawl
(http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L05/current/23/)
Instrument Description:

A Nordic 264 surface rope trawl is a 198-m long, 25-m wide, 35-m vertical trawl net, equipped with a 1.2-cm mesh liner in the cod end and towed at the surface.

PI supplied instrument name: Nordic 264 Rope Trawl
Dataset-specific description

At each station, a Nordic 264 rope trawl built by Nor'Eastern Trawl Systems, Inc. was towed in surface waters by a chartered fishing vessel (F/V Sea Eagle in 2000 and F/V Frosti in 2002). It was towed with about 300 m of warp for 30 min at 1.5 m/sec with a pair of 3.0-m foam-filled trawl doors and 90.7-kg weight chains to spread the mouth open.