This dataset is a component of the PAN-Arctic data collection of benthic BIOtas (PANABIO) and has been collated during the Census of Marine Life project Arctic Ocean Diversity (ArcOD; http://www.arcodiv.org/). It contains a total of 859 presence records of 189 megabenthic taxa (species to genus level) identified in 17 Agassiz trawl catches taken at 17 stations located in western Fram Strait off Northeast Greenland at water depths of 80–890 m during a cruise in 1985. The dataset is also available in a PostgreSQL-based data warehouse that can be accessed and queried through an open-access frontend web service at https://critterbase.awi.de/panabio.