Sequencing information and diversity estimates for water samples collected from four different depths at 3 sites in subarctic and tropical North Pacific Ocean obtained by 454 pyrosequencing.

*<p>Trimmed reads that passed quality control; Total number of OTUs, species richness estimator (Chao1), diversity (Shannon index <i>H</i>′), coverage (Chao) were calculated at 97% similarity level.