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Wiebe, P. H.; Morton, A. W.; Bradley, A. M.; Backus, R. H.; Craddock, J. E.; Barber, V.; Cowles, T. J.; Flierl, G. R. (1985). "New development in the MOCNESS, an apparatus for sampling zooplankton and micronekton".
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