Fisheries scientists process catch. (Credit: NOAA)
the Albatross IV can be overwhelming. During each cruise, fish and invertebrates are sorted on deck by species. The data about each fish, such as its sex, weight, length, and stomach contents are recorded. Oceanographic data are also collected by sensors, both shipboard and deployed. A typical fishery resource survey cruise takes about 45 sea days. Albatross IV also was a "school" for software engineers, who developed a computerized system for fisheries data collection with scientists from NOAA's Northeast Fisheries Science Center during the annual trawls. The ship then served as the test platform in 2001
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for the automated system that signaled the end of nearly four decades of pencil and paper data recording aboard NOAA fisheries ships in the Northeast. The successful tests aboard Albatross IV led to installation of the system across the NOAA fisheries fleet. As part of the fleet of NOAA research and survey ships and vessels, Albatross IV was operated, managed, and maintained by officers of the NOAA Corps, masters and wage mariners under NOAA's Office of Marine and Aviation Operations. Her last captain was Master Stephen Wagner, a resident of Woods Hole, Mass.
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