Unknown Unknown MOCNESS-1 plankton tow samples from thirty cruises to the Gulf of Maine and Georges Bank region were screened for fish larvae abundance. Fish larvae were identified by species and measured for lengths. Sampling was conducted over a fixed sampling grid, on a monthly basis (January-June) for years 1995-1999. The MOCNESS-1 plankton sampler has nine rectangular nets (1m x 1.4m) with a mesh size of 0.333 mm, which are opened and closed sequentially by commands through conducting cable from the surface. When towed at 45 degrees, the net mouth has a 1 square meter sampling area. Note: The list of taxonomic names reported in the keywords section reflects only those species that are of commerical interest. The complete list of organisms identified is too time-consuming to compile and report here in total. The user is urged to use the edit/find command to determine if a taxa of interest is present in the data that does not appear in the keyword list. See companion data sets on the same website with file names of: fisheggs, fishlarvaeB. Not Available Not Available 19950201 19950731 Unknown 19960101 19960630 Unknown 19970101 19970630 Unknown 19980101 19980630 Unknown 19990101 19990630 Unknown Complete As needed -69.5 -65.5 42.5 40.0 GCMD ENTRY ID fishlarvaeM_GB GCMD SCIENCE PARAMETERS EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > MARINE BIOLOGY > FISH > LARVAE GCMD PLATFORM SHIPS GCMD INSTRUMENT MOCNESS > MOCNESS PLANKTON NET PROJECT GLOBEC > GLOBAL OCEAN ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS, IGBP U.S.GLOBEC-GB > U.S. GLOBAL OCEAN ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS, GEORGES BANK IGBP > INTERNATIONAL GEOSPHERE-BIOSPHERE PROGRAMME AUXILIARY KEYWORDS Globec-gb Global Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics, Georges Bank Cod Haddock Larvae Agonidae Ammodytes Aspidophoroides Monopterygius Benthosema Bothus Bothidae Brosme Brosme Ceratoscopelus Maderensis Congridae Clupea Harengus Cubiceps Cyclopteridae Diaphus Dumerili Diogenichthys Atlanticus Gadus Morhua Gobiidae Glyptocephalus Cynoglossus Helicolenus Dactylopterus Hippoglossoides Platessoides Hygophum Reinhardti Labridae Laemonema Lipuris Limanda Ferruginea Lumpenus Maculatus Melamphaidae Melanogrammus Aeglefinus Merluccius Myoxocephalus Notolepis Rissoi Ophichthidae Paralepis Coregonoides Peprilus Triacanthus Pholis Gunnellus Pleuronectidae Pollachius Virens Pseudopleuronectes Americanus Scomber Scombrus Scophthalmus Aquosus Sebastes Symbolophorus Veranyi Symphurus Ulvaria Subbifurcata Urophycis ISO TOPIC CATEGORY OCEANS BIOTA DATA SET LANGUAGE English GCMD NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > GULF OF MAINE > GEORGES BANK GULF OF MAINE Not Available Any person making substantial use of a data set must communicate with the investigators who acquired the data prior to publication and anticipate that the data collectors will be co-authors of published results. This extends to model results and to data organized for retrospective studies. The data available here are intended for scholarly use by the academic and scientific community, with the express understanding that any such use will properly acknowledge the originating investigator. Use or reproduction of any material herein for any commercial purpose is prohibited without prior written permission from the U.S. GLOBEC Data Management Office. Complete "use statement" can be found at: "http://globec.whoi.edu/globec-dir/data-acknowledgement-policy.html" Not Available Not Available Not Available Not Available Unknown GLOBEC/US_GLOBEC > U.S. Global Ocean Ecosystems Dynamics Program ROBERT C. GROMAN DATA CENTER CONTACT Mailing and Physical Address

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Woods Hole MA 02543-1127 USA 508-289-2409 508-457-2169 rgroman@whoi.edu Georges Bank Not Available Not Available http://globec.whoi.edu/ DATA CENTER URL http://globec.whoi.edu/jg/dir/globec/gb/ U.S. GLOBEC Data System - Directory of Data; See data object(s): "fishlarvae_M" (Donna Johnson, Investigator) Not Available 20040520 20051005 GEORGE F. HEIMERDINGER DIF AUTHOR Mailing and Physical Address

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

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Woods Hole MA 02543 USA 508 289 3755 gheimerdinger@whoi.edu FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata FGDC-STD-001-1998 local time