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
- Missouri River
- Great Lakes
- Sacramento River
- Red River
- Mississippi
- Penobscott
- Wetlands
- Mangrove swamps
- Reservoirs and other Man-Made Impoundments
Some of the Specialized gears that are now World Famous for their productivity in sampling:
Aggregate Catch SKT
Green Sturgeon SRT
The Pallid Sturgeon OT-1 and OT-16
Mamou Surface Trawl
Aluette Midwater
SCCRWP trawl
Dozer net
Paupiers
Spider trawls
Yankee trawls
Kodiak trawl
The Great Lakes Goby Trawl
The Shivel Nose Skate Trawl
The Paddlefish Surface Trawl * Yes, it takes Y.O.Y
Glider and Jet Skimmer nets
Iruka Beam
Iruka Seine
Misago Beam
Vancouver Plumb Staff Beams
Ocean Deep SKT Benthic
. . . and many , many more custom gears for small to large vessels and Shallow to Extreme Depths
Small boat? Low Horse Power? No Problem! Our Hyper -Design Gears give your underpowered vessel the advantages it needs to get out there and do your sampling like the 'Big Guys' . . . . .
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| Atlantic Groundfish survey |
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Atlantic Groundfish Study
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| Greg and Tamil crew Lakswadeep Sea |
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Greg onboard with Tamil Crew, Lakswadeep Sea
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| Asian Carp. 20 minute tow with Paupier Trawls |
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Asian carp. 20 minute tow with Paupier Nets
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| Arctic Cod Y.O.Y. Beaufort Sea. Aluette Midwater trawl |
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Elusive Y.O.Y. Arctic Cod, caught with INS Aluette Midwater, Beaufort Sea. NOAA
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| Deepwater catch Indian Ocean |
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Deepwater catch. Indian Ocean. SKT Model 30 Mtr. x 150mm
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| Aluete Midwater deploying shallow |
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Aluette Midwater, deploying at Drop Off Shelf, North Coast, Alaska
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| 15 minute tow of YOY Asian Carp with Model 35 Mamou Surface trawl |
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15 minutes haul of YOY Asian Carp with Mamou trawl
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| SKT Model 25 Lake Michigan |
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NOAA, night trawling Lake Michigan. SKT Model 25 x 42mm
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| Misago Deep water beam net: 17,000 feet to the bottom, near the Trench |
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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.
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| 12' SKT Benthic Trawl . . . really small eh? |
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SKT Model 12 x 35mm . . . small boat eh?
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| Open Ocean cage. Built in conjunction with M.I.T. and American Soybeam Institute |
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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.
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| Paddlefish caught in Mamou Surface trawl Model 30 x 50mm |
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Paddlefish caught and ready to be tagged. Mamou Surface trawl
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| Green Sturgeon caught in Sacramento River Trawl Model 16 x 38mm |
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Green Sturgeon. Sacramento River. * The story was they caught a few dozen a year Back-in-the-day. However . . . .Update 11/20/2023 . . . they're catching 300 a month with our SRT Model 16.
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| Debbie Faulkner, the Love of Greg's Life working in the shop |
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Debbie Faulkner, the Love of Greg's Life . . . .
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| Gulf of Mexico benthic sampling |
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Gulf of Mexico Benthic Sampling, after BP Oil Spill . . .
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| Laying out the Purse Seine |
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Laying out the Purse Seine
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| Setting up a Model 25 x 42mm |
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SKT Model 25 x42mm. Eastern Canada waters.
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| Mixed Deepwater catch Mid Pacific sea mount |
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| Mamou Surface trawl Model 45 x 150mm . Load of paddlefish ready for tagging |
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Mamou Surface trawl, Model 45 x 150mm. Tagging Paddlers.
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| Deploying the Aluette Pelagic |
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Easy, manual deploy of Aluette Model 25 x 20 x 42mm . * Notice: No big cranes, gantries or large "A" frames required.
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| Mamou Surface trawl, Model 55 x60mm |
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Mamou Model 45 x 60. Penobscott River. Sampling forage fish and YOY Atlantic Salmon.
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| Pallid Sturgeon. All caught in the same net on the same day. SKT Model 16 x 38mm |
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Pallid Sturgeon, all sizes caught on the same day with the same SKT Model 16x38 benthic trawl.
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| Pinks. 35' Iruka Beam net. Inside Passage Alaska |
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Back-in-the-Day. Petersburg, Alaska, Inside Passage. Pink shrimp. 35' Iruka Beam net. Circa, 1990-ish
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| Mamou Surface trawl working over Cotton Wood trees and stumps |
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Working a Model 35 Mamou Trawl over sunken Cottonwoods and stumps . . . searching for YOY Asian Carp
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| Greg Faulkner and Aiko Iguchi ( Master Net Maker for Nitto Seimo of Japan) |
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Greg Faulkner and Aiko Iguchi ( Nitto Seimo master seine builder). Discussing designs, somewhere offshore in the Gulf of Mexico
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| Reservoir trawling . Carp Eradication |
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Reservoir Trawling with SKT ( Hybrid) Model 25 x 42 . . . Common Carp Eradication program .
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| Sampling Floating "trash" in the Pacific Gyre |
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Sampling fish living under flotsom amd jetsom in the Pacific Gyre, waaaay out of San Diego. Lamparra-guese seine, INS.
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Sampling Aggricultural Ditch for Northern Snakeheads, Arkansas rice field. Model D- 16 x 38 . . . . ( actually towed by two 4 wheelers on the levee road)
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These pictures give you just an inkling of what INS can do for your project.
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