Instrument: Hand Net

Acronym: Hand Net

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Description

A hand net (also called a scoop net or dip net) is a net or mesh basket held open by a hoop. They are used for scooping fish near the surface of the water.

Datasets (9)

Dataset Name	PI-Supplied Description	PI-Supplied Name
Amino acid compound-specific isotope analysis (AA-CSIA) of tissue samples from four distinct trophic groups across the food web in the pelagic eastern tropical Pacific Ocean; samples collected on NOAA cruises from July to December 2006	Specimens of mesopelagic myctophid fishes Myctophum nitidulum (Mn) and Symbolophorus reversus (Sr) were collected by dipnet at night.	dipnet
Bulk raw isotopic data from tissue samples from non-tuna species collected in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean onboard two NOAA research ships, David Starr Jordan and McArthur II, (cruises SWFSC1630 and SWFSC1631) in 2006	Specimens of mesopelagic myctophid fishes Myctophum nitidulum (Mn) and Symbolophorus reversus (Sr) were collected by dipnet at night.	dipnet
Damselfish energetics from multiple shallow reef sites in the Caribbean between June 2016-2019	Assorted nets were used to collect fish.
Diurnal gnathiid consumption in fish sampled from shallow reef sites in Caribbean waters from May 2017 to Sep 2021	An assortment of nets (e.g. hand nets, cast nets, barrier nets) was used for fish catching.	An assortment of nets (e.g. hand nets, cast nets, barrier nets)
Measures of anemonefish habitat quality and parental traits from field experiments conducted at Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea from May to August 2017		hand nets
Field assay experiment data to determine if the presence of larger individuals of T. hardwicke adversely affects the survival of focal individuals in Moorea, French Polynesia from 2005-2007 (CDD_in_Reef_Fish project)	Thalassoma hardwicke settlers were collected from reefs ~ 600 m from the study site using the fish anaesthetic eugenol (clove oil) and hand nets.	hand net
Parasite abundance data collected from coral reef fishes across 19 islands in the central equatorial Pacific from 2009 to 2021	In general, fish greater than 10 cm in total length were collected using three-pronged spears, while hand nets were used to capture fish smaller than 10 cm in length.	hand nets
Reef Fish genetic accession numbers at NCBI Genbank	Arango et al. (2018) and Pyle et al. (2018) used closed-circuit rebreather technology to access reefs and used hand nets to collect specimens. Wilcox et al. (2018) and Tenggardjaja et al. (2018) used conventional SCUBA to capture specimens with hand nets and pole spears.
Data from experiments testing the effects of hypoxia on behavior and physiology of two species of rockfish from from 2015-2016		large mesh hand nets