File Format
| Element name | Start Pos. |
Field Type | Description of Field |
| Station No | 1 | A2,I4 |
Staion number given by the ship code suffixed with four digits
consective numbers. |
| Sub Stn No | 8 | A5 |
Sub staion number. |
| Latitude | 14 | I2,1X,I2 |
Degrees, minutes of latitude. |
| Longitude | 20 | I3,1X,I2 |
Degrees, minutes of longitude. |
| Date/Time | 27 | 2(I2,1X),2I2 |
Month, day and time of an observation in JST. |
| Depth | 38 | A6 |
Range of towed depths in meters. |
| Water Strained | 45 | F5.1 |
Amount of water in cubic meters as determined by the
flow meter. |
| Wet Weight | 51 | I5 |
Wet weight given in milligrams per cubic meters. |
| Name Code | 61 | I5 |
Name code defined by JODC (Listed in Table below). |
| Number | 67 | I7 |
Total numbers per liter (Phytoplankton) or per ten cubic meters
(zooplankton). |