Instrument: MOCNESS.25

Instrument: 
Instrument Short Name: MOC.25
(http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L22/current/NETT0097/)
Instrument Description:

The Multiple Opening/Closing Net and Environmental Sensing System or MOCNESS is a family of net systems based on the Tucker Trawl principle. The MOCNESS-1/4 carries nine 1/4-m2 nets usually of 64 micrometer mesh and is used to sample the larger micro-zooplankton.

PI supplied instrument name: MOCNESS.25
Dataset-specific description

Mesozooplankton (> 64 µm) were collected from day/night pairs of tows with a 0.25 m-mouth area MOCNESS equipped with nine nets with a 7:1, mouth:length ratio (Wiebe et al., 1985).