Instrument: Neuston Net

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Instrument Short Name: Neuston Net
(http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L22/current/NETT0110/)
Instrument Description:

Neuston Nets are nets that collect zooplankton that live in the top few centimeters of the sea surface (the neuston layer). This specialized net has a rectangular mouth opening usually 2 or 3 times as wide as deep, i.e. 1 meter by 1/2 meter or 60 cm by 20 cm, with sometimes hollow piping construction to aid in flotation. They are generally towed half submerged at 1-2 kts from the side of the vessel on a boom to avoid the ship's wake.

PI supplied instrument name: Neuston
Dataset-specific description

A neuston net with a 1-m wide by 0.3-m high mouth and 0.333-mm mesh wasutilized for collection of all zooplankton samples.