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Agassiz trawl|ˈægəsɪz trɔːl|
[f. the name of Alexander E. Agassiz (1835–1910), American naturalist + trawl n.]
A type of beam-trawl.
1910Encycl. Brit. VIII. 573/1 (caption) Agassiz or Blake Trawl. From Alexander E. Agassiz's Three Cruises of the ‘Blake’. 1936Russell & Yonge Seas (ed. 2) 262 A small net known as the Agassiz trawl..has the advantage that whichever way it may fall on the sea bottom it can still fish effectively. 1959H. Barnes Oceanogr. & Marine Biol. i. 32 Separate problems arise in the sampling of plankton very close to the bottom... In one method, a net is mounted on an Agassiz trawl frame. |