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Table 2. Percentage
by weight of fish component of diet of piscivores according to geographic
area of collection |
| Predator |
Area
|
Middle
Atlantic
|
Southern
New
England
|
Georges
Bank
|
Gulf of
Maine
|
Scotian
Shelf
|
Inshore
North
of Cape
Hatteras
|
South
of Cape
Hatteras
|
| Northern shortfin squid |
23.0
|
12.3
|
5.2
|
13.1
|
7.1
|
73.3
|
-
|
| Longfin inshore squid |
17.0
|
15.3
|
7.6
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
21.4
|
17.8
|
| Dusky shark |
17.9
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
86.2
|
21.5
|
| Smooth dogfish |
10.1
|
7.8
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
5.8
|
24.6
|
| Atlantic sharpnose shark |
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
77.1
|
81.0
|
| Spiny dogfish |
72.7
|
55.8
|
49.9
|
40.9
|
30.6
|
60.4
|
92.4
|
| Little skate |
24.2
|
1.7
|
2.9
|
-
|
-
|
17.5
|
-
|
| Winter skate |
-
|
66.6
|
65.2
|
88.1
|
-
|
88.2
|
-
|
| Thorny skate |
-
|
-
|
68.1
|
38.3
|
15.4
|
64.8
|
-
|
| Alewife |
1.9
|
2.0
|
0.4
|
0.1
|
-
|
7.3
|
-
|
| Atlantic herring |
-
|
-
|
0.0
|
<0.1
|
-
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
| Atlantic cod |
74.2
|
71.9
|
40.3
|
43.8
|
4.0
|
61.4
|
-
|
| Haddock |
-
|
<0.1
|
<0.1
|
3.9
|
<0.1
|
0.0
|
-
|
| Silver hake |
74.1
|
88.9
|
62.2
|
50.2
|
85.7
|
51.6
|
-
|
| Pollock |
-
|
-
|
56.1
|
4.9
|
15.4
|
100.0
|
-
|
| Red hake |
51.9
|
31.5
|
8.9
|
22.6
|
30.9
|
51.3
|
-
|
| White hake |
-
|
97.8
|
55.2
|
42.9
|
51.0
|
93.5
|
-
|
| Fawn cusk-eel |
0.0
|
19.9
|
0.0
|
-
|
-
|
0.0
|
-
|
| Goosefish |
96.0
|
63.2
|
28.5
|
81.1
|
91.2
|
46.6
|
-
|
| Blackbelly rosefish |
10.1
|
2.9
|
0.6
|
0.0
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
| Acadian redfish |
-
|
-
|
0.0
|
15.6
|
<0.1
|
-
|
-
|
| Sea raven |
-
|
0.0
|
44.2
|
97.6
|
36.5
|
90.6
|
-
|
| Longhorn sculpin |
-
|
1.0
|
12.9
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
-
|
-
|
| Black sea bass |
23.6
|
3.0
|
0.0
|
-
|
-
|
18.4
|
44.8
|
| Bluefish |
98.1
|
4.6
|
33.9
|
-
|
-
|
75.5
|
94.1
|
| Scup |
0.0
|
0.8
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
30.0
|
55.7
|
| Weakfish |
0.0
|
100.0
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
76.3
|
74.1
|
| Spot |
0.0
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
0.1
|
9.9
|
| Southern kingfish |
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
6.4
|
21.0
|
| Northern kingfish |
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
27.9
|
5.2
|
| Ocean pout |
-
|
<0.1
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
<0.1
|
-
|
| Northern sand lance |
6.5
|
2.5
|
0.5
|
0.0
|
-
|
<0.1
|
-
|
| Atlantic mackerel |
-
|
0.0
|
<0.1
|
0.2
|
2.4
|
0.0
|
-
|
| Butterfish |
<0.1
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
-
|
-
|
<0.1
|
0.2
|
| Gulf Stream flounder |
0.0
|
6.8
|
0.0
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
| Summer flounder |
95.7
|
43.2
|
100.0
|
0.0
|
-
|
60.3
|
90.2
|
| Fourspot flounder |
41.6
|
19.5
|
0.3
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
| Windowpane |
55.7
|
23.6
|
71.6
|
-
|
-
|
22.1
|
0.0
|
| Atlantic halibut |
-
|
-
|
84.0
|
51.8
|
25.7
|
97.3
|
-
|
| Winter flounder |
0.0
|
<0.1
|
5.2
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
2.1
|
-
|
| Yellowtail flounder |
-
|
0.9
|
0.0
|
-
|
-
|
0.9
|
-
|
|