Zooplankton Bongo Net Data from the 2019 and 2020 Gulf of Alaska International Year of the Salmon Expeditions

10.21966/7cmt-ca72

This record contains zooplankton occurrence data collected in the Gulf of Alaska (GoA) with a bongo net between February 19 - March 15, 2019, and March 14 – April 5, 2020, as part of the International Year of the Salmon High Seas Expedition. The bongo net (3 m length, 250 µm mesh, 50 cm diameter) was deployed at 58 stations, to a depth of 250 m and retrieved vertically at 1 m s-1. Volume of sea water filtered was determined using General Oceanics flowmeters and by multiplying effective distance travelled by the mouth area. After the bongo net deployment and recovery, the net was rinsed down into the cod end. Samples from one cod end were rinsed into a jar and preserved in 4 % formaldehyde for future taxonomic analysis. The other cod end was rinsed into a sieve and transferred below deck where it was subsequently size fractionated (250-500 µm, 500-1000 µm, 1000-2000 µm, 2000-4000 µm, and >4000 µm) onto pre-weighed filters. Individuals larger than 4000 µm were measured, identified to species level, and stored in individual Eppendorf tubes. Size fractionated zooplankton samples were stored on dry ice. This record contains the zooplankton occurrence data from both cod ends, identified to the lowest taxonomic rank possible.

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Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Limitations: Full dataset including biomass and counts only available internally. Only species presence is publicly available.

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Metadata Reference Date(s) September 12, 2023 (Publication)
December 22, 2023 (Revision)
Data Reference Date(s) February 19, 2019 (Creation)
October 07, 2021 (Publication)
June 02, 2023 (Revision)
Frequency of Update As Needed

Responsible Party 1
Affiliation
North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission ROR logo
Email
secretariat@npafc.org
Role
Publisher
Responsible Party 2
Name
Hunt, Brian ORCID logo
Affiliation
University of British Columbia ROR logo
Email
b.hunt@oceans.ubc.ca
Role
  • Custodian
  • Owner
  • Principal Investigator
Responsible Party 3
Name
Mahara, Natalie
Affiliation
University of British Columbia ROR logo
Email
natalie.mahara@hakai.org
Role
  • Author
  • Custodian
Responsible Party 4
Name
Pakhomov, Evgeny
Affiliation
University of British Columbia ROR logo
Email
epakhomov@eoas.ubc.ca
Role
Principal Investigator
Responsible Party 5
Affiliation
Hakai Institute ROR logo
Email
data@hakai.org
Role
Distributor

Field Value
Ocean Variables
  • Zooplankton biomass and diversity
  • Other
Scope Dataset
Status Completed
Maintenance Note Generated from https://cioos-siooc.github.io/metadata-entry-form
Spatial Extent [[[-147.534, 46.36], [-128.523, 46.36], [-128.523, 56.667], [-147.534, 56.667], [-147.534, 46.36]]]
North Bounding Latitude 56.667
South Bounding Latitude 46.36
East Bounding Longitude -128.523
West Bounding Longitude -147.534
Temporal Extent
Begin
2019-02-19
End
2020-04-05
Vertical Extent
Min
0.0
Max
250.0
Default Locale English
Citation identifier
Code
https://doi.org/10.21966/7cmt-ca72
Included in Data Catalogue
Included in Data Catalogue 1
Name
International Year of the Salmon
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https://data.npafc.org