LOWER COASTAL ANIMALS 



By Henning Lemche 



Although we were a deep-sea expedition primarily engaged in exploring 

 the oceanic trenches, we also fished and collected in shallower waters. In 

 the first place, we naturally took advantage of time spent in port and 

 en route, and, in the second, it was sometimes necessary to work at shal- 

 lower depths in order to test and check the efficiency of our gear. The 

 object of collecting in shallow waters was two-fold: to supplement the 

 collections of our Zoological Museum as needed, and to supplement the 

 main objects of the expedition and make full use of our own time and 

 the ship's capacity. In the following, I shall try to illustrate some aspects 

 of our work on tidal coasts and coral reefs, in mangrove swamps, on the 

 sand and clay flats of the continental shelf, and over the continental slope 

 leading down to the deep ocean. 



The expedition's zoologists went collecting whenever they had the opportunity. Collecting small 

 fishes in very shallow water in Milford Sound, New Zealand. 



