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• n  animal constituent of plankton; mainly small crustaceans and fish larvae

• The phytoplankton is probably too small, but great whales gather the zooplankton, and man should be able to do the same.
• Clouds of minute zooplankton drifted across the sub's windows like snowflakes.
• The fish, in turn, eat insect larvae and zooplankton, and these foods had become saturated with the DDD dumped into Clear Lake.

News & Articles

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• Zooplankton changes spell fishery trouble
  NEW BEDFORD — NOAA scientists have found more evidence that not only are fish migrating toward colder waters, the specific zooplankton on which they feed has moved along with them.
  June 21, 2013 - The Standard-Times
• Changing ocean temperatures, circulation patterns affecting young Atlantic cod food supply
  Changing ocean water temperatures and circulation patterns have profoundly affected key Northeast U.S. Continental Shelf zooplankton species in recent decades, and may be influencing the recovery of Atlantic cod and other fish stocks in the region. Researchers have found that zooplankton species critical for the survival of Atlantic cod larvae have declined in abundance in the same areas where ...
  June 20, 2013 - Science Daily

Quotes

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• Bob Inglis in Kentucky.com
  I learned more than I'd ever known about ocean acidification, a problem that may open a hole in the bottom of the ocean's food chain as higher acidity water dissolves the shells of zooplankton,Inglis said in his statement.