Benthic otter trawl catch data, Porcupine Abyssal Plain, Northeast Atlantic Ocean, RRS Discovery III cruise 237, 1998.

These data record the results of processing otter trawl catches (OTSB14; Merrett & Marshall, 1980) from the National Oceanography Centre (NOC, UK) long-term study of the Porcupine Abyssal Plain (PAP), including the PAP-Sustained Observatory time-series. The data concern catches recovered during the RRS Discovery III Cruise 237 in 1998. Sibuet, M. et al. (1999). RRS Discovery Cruise 237, 25 Sep-08 Oct 1998. BENGAL: High resolution temporal and spatial study of the BENthic biology and Geochemistry of a north-eastern Atlantic abyssal Locality. Southampton Oceanography Centre Cruise Report, No. 23, 38pp.| https://www.bodc.ac.uk/resources/inventories/cruise_inventory/reports/d237.pdf