Mainly English Channel, Western Approaches, Bristol Channel and North Sea

Zooplankton dry weight biomass per unit volume of the water column; Zooplankton taxonomy-related abundance per unit volume of the water column; Zooplankton taxonomy-related biomass expressed as carbon per unit volume of the water column; Zooplankton and zoobenthos development stage parameters; Zooplankton egg hatch proportion

Plankton recorders; plankton nets

The data set comprises numbers of edible crab larvae per metre squared of sea surface by larval stage and by cruise station position from various research vessel cruises carried out in the English Channel, Western Approaches, Bristol Channel and North Sea in 1981, 1989 and 1993. Some cruises used the LHPR for vertical distribution studies. Many of the cruises were primarily aimed at other species.

Thompson, B.M., Lawler, A.R. and Bennett, A.B. (1995) Estimation of the Spatial Distribution of Spawning Crabs (Cancer pagurus L.). Using larval surveys in the English Channel., ICES Marine Science Symposium, 199 : 139-150.

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