Ichthyoplankton composition form PELDOcean cruise 3, Southern Brazilian Shelf, in 2002@en

The PELDOcean cruise series were carried out by the Brazilian Program for Long-term Ecological Research (PELD) - Site 8 - Lagoa dos Patos Estuary and Adjacent Coastal Region. The activities aimed at the analysis of oceanographic conditions and ichthyoplankton in the coastal region under the influence of the Patos Lagoon (Muelbert, 2000). Three cruises were carried out, the first on 22 and 23/02/2000 (PELDoce_1), the second on 10 and 11/10/2000 (PELDoce_2) and the last on 05/02/2002 (PELDoce_3). Each cruise included a transect perpendicular to the coastline from the channel of the Lagoa dos Patos estuary towards the ocean, where 8 sequential hydrographic stations were carried out to characterize the oceanographic condition of the water column, followed by 5 complete oceanographic stations which included plankton trawls (Muelbert, 2000; 2001). […]