Meanwhile, biologists used an assortment of nets to collect samples ranging from plankton to shrimp to fish to learn if radionuclides from Fukushima were accumulating in marine life. Above, biologists (left to right) Hiroomi Miyamoto, Jennifer George, and Hannes Baumann haul in a Methot net, a 2-meter-by-2-meter frame with a long, pyramid-shaped net towed at a depth of 200 meters. (Photo by Ken Kostel, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)[back]
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