NOAA Ship Pisces

NOAA Ship Pisces is the third in a class of state-of-the-art, acoustically quiet fisheries survey vessels built for a wide range of living marine resource surveys and ecosystem research projects. The ship focuses primarily on U.S. waters from the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean, and South Atlantic to North Carolina.

Constructed to meet the National Marine Fisheries Service's specific data collection requirements, Pisces is a stern trawler with capabilities for shrimp trawling, longlining, plankton and reef fish sampling, midwater trawling, bottom trawling, acoustic surveys, and oceanographic and hydrographic operations.

Last updated: 2016-08-03 13:34

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