Macroplankton and micronekton length/size frequencies from the Norwegian Sea 2019-2020

• Main Authors: Knutsen, Tor, Strand, Espen, Klevjer, Thor Aleksander, Thorsen Broms, Cecilie, Melle, Webjørn
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2024
• Subjects: 108; 111; 118; 122; 139; 146; 147; 153; 154; 158; 159; 165; 175; 184; 190; 194; 58GS2019107; 58GS2019107_146-MPT; 58GS2019107_154-MPT; 58GS2019107_158-MPT; 58GS2019107_165-MPT; 58GS2019107_175-MPT; 58GS2019107_184-MPT; 58GS2019107_190-MPT; 58GS2019107_194-MPT; 58GS2020106; 58GS2020106_108-MPT; 58GS2020106_111-MPT; 58GS2020106_118-MPT; 58GS2020106_122-MPT; 58GS2020106_139-MPT; 58GS2020106_147-MPT; 58GS2020106_153-MPT; 58GS2020106_159-MPT; Anarhichadidae; standard length; Anarhichas lupus; Arctozenus risso; Benthosema; Benthosema glaciale; Cephalopoda; mantle length; Clupea harengus; total length; Date/Time of event; Date/Time of event 2; Norwegian Sea; British Antarctic Survey Bulletin; Nordic Seas
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.964695; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.964695

We provide here a curated set of data containing representative length/size measurements of key macroplankton and mesopelagic fish collected by a Macroplankton trawl (~6 m x 6 m mouth opening, non-graded mesh with 3 mm light-opening) from cruises in the Norwegian Sea during the International Ecosystem Survey in the Nordic Seas (IESNS) in May to June 2019 and 2020. The collected material is obtained from standardized V-shaped hauls down to a maximum depth of about 1000 m, although some shallower V-hauls are included either to look at the vertically migrating mesopelagic organisms that enter the epipelagic domain during nighttime hours, or because of depth restrictions due to shallow bottom topography.