Abundance of the other microzooplankton metazoans (copepodites and small adult copepods) was lower then nauplii densities, with maximum of 10 ind. L' recorded at 20 m at AlOOO station. We recorded five small copepod species: Oithona nana, Oithona similis, Monothula subtilis, Oncaea waldemari and Microsetella norvegica