Fish faecal pellets and eggs data collected using a sediment trap deployed in 1998 in Terra Nova Bay, Ross Sea, Antarctica

Sediment trap samples were collected during a cruise on the ITALICA research vessel. The traps were deployed in TNB Polynya on a mooring platform (mooring L, bottom 998 m) at 160 m depth during 1999. The sample carousel of the sediment trap was set up to rotate at intervals of 15 days over the whole year. Upon recovery, faecal pellets and eggs samples were investigate in term of abundance, degradation state, class size using an optical microscope. Carbon content was determined using a CHN analyser.