Dataset: Shipboard grazing experiment zooplankton data from the mid-Atlantic Bight Shelfbreak on R/V Neil Armstrong cruise AR29, R/V Ronald H. Brown cruise RB1904 and R/V Thomas G. Thompson cruise TN368 in April 2018 and May/July2019

Daily zooplankton Grazing Experiments were conducted on each of three cruises as a component of the SPIROPA project. 12 experiments/Cruise, targeting 3 water mass regimes: shelf, shelfbreak front and slope waters.

Grazing experiment sample water was collected with a CTD/Niskin bottle rosette at depths ranging from surface (0 m) to 56m, targeting chl-a max if present. Two experimental treatments were incubated: 1. whole water to represent the entire plankton community and 2. <200 µm fraction of plankton community to estimate microzooplankton grazing impact.