Ichthyoplankton composition from AREPE cruise 1, Southern Brazilian Shelf, in 1980

The AREPE (Avaliação de Recursos Pelágicos) cruises were carried out by the Department of Oceanography at the Federal University of Rio Grande in the South Brazilian Continental Shelf, a region between Cape Santa Marta (28°30'S) and Chuí (34°30'S). In each of the five cruises, 21 transects (14 on the 4th cruise) perpendicular to the coastline were conducted aboard NOc. Atlantic, resulting in approximately 100 oceanographic stations (62 on the 4th cruise) spaced 20 nautical miles (~ 37 km) apart, bounded to the east by the 200 m isobath (Vasconcellos & Castello, 1995; Marcon, 2003).