The aim of this study is to present for the first tim information on (1) mierozooplankton and (2) mesozooplankton eommunities along the coastal-open sea transeet of the waters off Albania. For provide this aims, we seleeted 6 stations along transeet from the eoastal area to the deep open sea Albanian waters. Although short time sampling (May 2009), we hypothesized that we eould recognize the influenee of the river plume and/or the open sea on the zooplankton eommunity