Ichthyoplankton and zooplankton samples in the Labrador Sea and Canadian Arctic (2017-2025)

Zooplankton herbivorous species play an important role in the channeling of energy and organic matter from the primary producers to higher trophic levels occupied by marine vertebrates. Knowledge of Arctic zooplankton community structure and diversity in different sectors of the Arctic Ocean needs to be gathered in order to start monitoring the evolution of these communities over time. This project describes the zooplankton assemblages and their distribution in the Labrador Sea and Canadian Arctic from 2017 - 2025. Surveys were conducted aboard the CCGS Amundsen to establish baseline knowledge on the occurrence and distribution of Ichthyoplankton and zooplankton, and to continue the ArcticNet time-series initiated in 2003. This datasets concerns the species collected from zooplankton samplers deployed from CCGS Amundsen.