SAMPLING METHODS SUMMARY
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Night surface tows were made from the HM-Smith for a period of 20 minutes with a 1-meter plankton net. Similar tows were made at dusk from the Scofield. The HM-Smith nets were constructed of Nitex ( mesh = 656 um ) and employed an Atlas flow meter. The Scofield net was a standard BGC non-closing net (see SCOT and STOR, mesh = 505 um).

SAMPLING GEAR	NET MESH	TOW METHODS ( depth range )	# of TOWS	% of all TOWS
Plankton Net (type unspecified)	656 um	horizontal "surface"	25	83.3 %
Non-Closing Net (SCOT/STOR)	505 um	horizontal "surface"	5	16.7 %
		TOTAL TOWS	30

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Sub-Collection:   Albacore

NMFS-COPEPOD http://www.st.nmfs.noaa.gov/plankton Web v3.1   [ 2006-Oct]