Larval and post-larval crab data attained from zooplankton net samples during the 2012 & 2013 Arctic EIS Surveys and the 2017 Arctic IES Survey

• Main Author: Jared Weems
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Research Workspace 2021
• Subjects: OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN > BERING SEA; OCEAN > ARCTIC OCEAN > CHUKCHI SEA; In Situ/Laboratory Instruments > Samplers > Trawls/Nets > BONGO NETS; 2013; 2012; September; August; 2017; Summer; snow crab; blue king crab; crab; crab larvae; Community composition; abundance; zooplankton; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Bering Sea; Chukchi Sea; Pacific; Chukchi; Snow crab; Zooplankton
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/10.24431_rw1k59e_20210623T192655Z

Larval and post-larval crab sampling was performed at matching grid stations across three sampling years within Arctic IES Phase 1 and Phase 2 programs. Samples were collected at sea following NOAA-AFSC protocols for oblique bongo net tows from the 60cm diameter - 505um mesh nets. Samples in 2012 & 2013 were taken from Net 1 (Zoop. PI Alexei Pinchuk, UAF) and Net 2 in 2017 (Zoop PI David Kimmel and Weems). Collected samples were examined under a microscope in Juneau, all crab larvae sorted, enumerated, and identified into species and stage-specific taxonomic categories. The data files contain: station information, including latitude, longitude, and time; summary data for supporting environmental variables, and all crab species and stage specific abundances (number per sample). Files are comma separated values.