In small-scale fisheries around the world, gillnets are helping individual fishermen put food on the table day in and day out. But at the same time, this non-selective fishing gear is inadvertently catching bycatch.
Learn how an intern spent the summer in the Pacific Islands, designing his apparatus to provide scientists with a cheap alternative to the expensive underwater camera equipment used in some marine biology research.
In this interview, NOAA Fisheries zoologist Mike Vecchione says that of all the space on Earth that contains multicellular life, over 95 percent of that is in the deep sea. And we know almost nothing about it.
