both regions was present as C5, with a small proportion of C4 and females There were vely few anlmals on GB. In the southern GOM about a third of the C. finmarchicus population was In the upper 80 m and actively feeding; the rerna~nder were below 120 m. On GB the C. fjnmarch~cus population was also feeding; gut p~glnent content in both areas was between 3 and 13 ng copepod-'. About one thlrd of the adult females on GB were reproductively a c t~v e ivh~le none in the GOM were reproductlvely active. By January C. finmarchicus C6 females formed a large proportion of the older stage a n~m a l s on the Bank and in surface waters of the southern GOM These were actively f e e d~n g and reproducing with a large cohort of young nauplii of C, finmarch~cus present in the southern GOM and smaller numbers on the northeast peak of the Bank. There were very few C. finmarchicus nauplii on the crest of the Bank or on the southern flank. Based on abundances and stage composition, it appeared that spawning began in late December and that repopulation of the Bank took place in the region of the NE peak, with nauplii and reproductlvely active females being transported onto this region of the Bank from the GOM.