Instrument: Meter Net

Dataset: 
Doliolid diet: zooplankton abundance
Instrument: 
Meter Net
Instrument Short Name: Meter Net
Community Standard Description
(http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L05/current/22/)
Instrument Description:

A meter net is a plankton net with a one meter diameter opening and a mesh size of .333 mm, towed horizontally, obliquely or vertically, also known as a Ring Net.

PI supplied instrument name: meter net
Dataset-specific description

1M (mouth opening) 5M length 200 µm mesh cone plankton net equipped with a filtering (202 µm mesh) cod-end.  The mouth of the net was mounted in a swivel towing frame that allowed the opening of the net to track the water current.  A mechanical flow meter (General Oceanics Part# 2030RC) was mounted in the center of the net.