RADIALES Vigo St. 3 Northwest Iberian coast Latitude:   42.1417     Longitude:   -8.9533 Associated Investigators: Antonio Bode (RADIALES Coordinator) , Ana Miranda (environmental) ,   Ana Miranda (zooplankton) ,   Beatriz Reguera (phytoplankton) ,   Gerardo Casas   Related Web Sites: [RADIALES web site]   Related Time Series: [ Santander ]   [ A Coruña ]   [ Gijón/Xixón ]   [ Vigo ]   [ Cudillero ]   [ Mallorca (Mediterranean) ]   [ Málaga (Mediterranean) ]   The Vigo section is part of the time-series programme RADIALES (Instituto Español de Oceanografiía). Station 3 of the Vigo section, which was used for this summary, is located off the northwest Iberian coast at 42.1417 N 8.9533 W. Zooplankton samples were collected from 50 m to the surface (oblique hauls) on a monthly basis with a Juday-Bogorov net (0.5 m diameter, 200 µm mesh). Samples were preserved in 4% formalin in sodium borate-buffered seawater and then examined in the laboratory for identification and counting of mesozooplankton by the rarefaction method (Omori and Ikeda, 1984). Biomass was calculated as dry weight (Lovegrove, 1962) of samples filtered upon arrival at the laboratory.