NMFS Office of Science & Technology   |   Marine Ecosystems Division   <-- back to previous page -- BCF - POFI (Individual Data Summary)   <-  COPEPOD: The Global Plankton Database     BCF - POFI Zooplankton biomass data (displacement volume) and zooplankton abundance data (functional groups) sampled by the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries (BCF) during the Pacific Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (POFI).     [copePID:   us-05501] Temporal Sampling Coverage Click here for a table and map-based summary of sampling coverage by year and month. May 1950 - July 1961 Months Plankton Data Content Click here for a table and summary of plankton taxa and species present in this data set. BIOM ZOOP PHYT TSOX NUTS CHLA Click on an icon above to map just that data type. Ship & Cruise Summary Click here for table and map-based summary of dataset cruises and sampling stations. You can also view data from individual cruises in this section. Sampling Metadata Click here for documentation and statistics on sampling gear, mesh sizes, and methods used. Investigator Summary Click here for a summary of associated investigators, institutes, and projects. Data Access & Formats Click here for data format descriptions and to download this data collection. Data Distribution Map Click on a "Plankton Data Content" icon (to the left) to see that data type displayed on this map. ( Any gold dots in this map represent non-quantitative samples. ) World Location Map The Red Box indicates the area of the focused map above. This data summary is for just one out of over 150 plankton data sets present in the COPEPOD global plankton database. If you were dropped here by a search engine, you can find out more about this online database by clicking here. Sub-Collection:   BCF - POFI   [us-05501] North Pacific (68%) , South Pacific (32%) Web v14.2   [ 2019-Mar ] https://www.st.nmfs.noaa.gov/copepod       CDMP:   #0092, #0094