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Research and Sampling
INS builds sampling gear from 6' to 65' in a variety of  Benthic, Surface and Pelagic nets.

Our nets have reached the  deepest corners of the world as well as right in your own backyard.

  • Marianna Trench ( Edge )
  • New Zealand
  • Bay of Carpentaria
  • South Africa
  • Borneo
  • Med Sea
  • Indian Ocean
  • Chukchi Sea
  • Beaufort Sea
  • South China Sea
  • Gulf of Mexico
  • Chilean Sea Mounts
  • Amazon River
  • Baja 
  • Aleutians
  • Sargasso Sea
  • Most major rivers in the USA
  • Smaller tributaries and inlets  in the USA and Canada
  • Reservoirs and  other Man-Made Impoundments
  • and on and on  . . . . . . . 

Benthic and groundfish trawls
Atlantic Groundfish survey
Atlantic Groundfish Study 

Indian ocean fishing
Greg and Tamil crew Lakswadeep Sea
Greg onboard with Tamil Crew, Lakswadeep Sea 

Asian carp
Asian Carp. 20 minute tow with Paupier Trawls
Asian carp. 20 minute tow with Paupier Nets

midwater sampling
Arctic Cod Y.O.Y. Beaufort Sea. Aluette Midwater trawl
Elusive Y.O.Y. Arctic Cod, caught with INS Aluette Midwater, Beaufort Sea. NOAA

Deepwater sampling
Deepwater catch Indian Ocean
 
Deepwater catch. Indian Ocean. SKT Model 30 Mtr. x 150mm

Midwater sampling
Aluete Midwater deploying shallow
Aluette Midwater, deploying at Drop Off Shelf, North Coast, Alaska

15 minute tow of YOY Asian Carp with Model 35 Mamou Surface trawl
15 minutes haul  of YOY Asian Carp with Mamou trawl

Lake sampling
SKT Model 25 Lake Michigan
NOAA, night trawling Lake Michigan. SKT Model 25 x 42mm

Beam nets for sampling
Misago Deep water beam net: 17,000 feet to the bottom, near the Trench
Our most spectacular Deepwater sampling gear EVER! The Misago Beam. Deploying very near the "Trench" out of Guam. Destined for 17,000 feet of water.

12' SKT Benthic Trawl . . . really small eh?
SKT Model 12 x 35mm . . .  small boat eh?

fish pens and cages
Open Ocean cage. Built in conjunction with M.I.T. and American Soybeam Institute
Open Ocean Fish cage. South China Sea. Built in conjunction with M.I.T. and American Soybean Institute. * Not my personal choice of design or netting material. 

Paddlefish, Spoonbills
Paddlefish caught in Mamou Surface trawl Model 30 x 50mm
Paddlefish caught and ready to be tagged. Mamou Surface trawl

sturgeon sampling
Green Sturgeon caught in Sacramento River Trawl Model 16 x 38mm
Green Sturgeon. Sacramento River. * The story was they caught 5-10 a year Back-in-the-day.  However . . . .Once they started using our SRT Model 16 x 35mm , they caught 5-10 a week!

Benthic and groundfish trawls
Debbie Faulkner, the Love of Greg's Life working in the shop
Debbie Faulkner, the Love of Greg's Life . . . .  

groundfish sampling gear
Gulf of Mexico benthic sampling
Gulf of Mexico Benthic Sampling, after BP Oil Spill . . . 

seines, purse seines for sampling
Laying out the Purse Seine
Laying out the Purse Seine

fish sampling with trawls
Setting up a Model 25 x 42mm
SKT Model 25 x42mm. Eastern Canada waters.

deep water research and sampling
Mixed Deepwater catch Mid Pacific sea mount
paddlefish research
Mamou Surface trawl Model 45 x 150mm . Load of paddlefish ready for tagging
Mamou Surface trawl, Model 45 x 150mm. Tagging Paddlers.

pelagic sampling
Deploying the Aluette Pelagic
Easy, manual deploy of Aluette Model 25 x 20 x 42mm . * Notice: No big cranes, gantries or large  "A" frames required.

sampling forage fish
Mamou Surface trawl, Model 55 x60mm
Mamou Model 45 x 60. Penobscott River. Sampling forage fish and YOY Atlantic Salmon.

pallid sturgeon sampling
Pallid Sturgeon. All caught in the same net on the same day. SKT Model 16 x 38mm
Pallid Sturgeon, all sizes caught on the same day with the same SKT Model 16x38 benthic trawl.

shrimp trawls and beam nets
Pinks. 35' Iruka Beam net. Inside Passage Alaska
Back-in-the-Day. Petersburg, Alaska, Inside Passage. Pink shrimp. 35' Iruka Beam net. Circa, 1990-ish

mamou surface trawling
Mamou Surface trawl working over Cotton Wood trees and stumps
Working a Model 35 Mamou Trawl over sunken Cottonwoods and stumps . . .  searching for YOY Asian Carp

net design
Greg Faulkner and Aiko Iguchi ( Master Net Maker for Nitto Seimo of Japan)
Greg Faulkner and Aiko Iguchi ( Nitto Seimo master seine builder). Discussing designs,  somewhere offshore in the  Gulf of Mexico

carp eradication
Reservoir trawling . Carp Eradication
Reservoir Trawling with SKT ( Hybrid) Model 25 x 42 . . .  Common Carp Eradication program .

Pacific gyre, garbage Patch pacific
Sampling Floating "trash" in the Pacific Gyre
Sampling fish living under flotsom amd jetsom in the Pacific Gyre, waaaay out of San Diego. Lamparra-guese seine, INS.

sampling ditches and canals
Sampling Aggricultural Ditch for Northern Snakeheads, Arkansas rice field.  Model D- 16 x 38 . . . .  ( actually towed by two 4 wheelers on the levee road)

These pictures give you just an inkling of  what INS can do for your project.

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