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Table 6.  Percentage by weight of crustaceans (other than decapods) in diet of predators which eat such crustaceans 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 8.5 18.6 22.0 26.4 4.8 3.9 -
Longfin inshore squid 3.4 7.5 3.1 70.1 0.0 3.6 1.4
Dusky shark 0.0 - - - - 1.1 18.1
Smooth dogfish 2.3 0.4 - - - 2.5 9.9
Atlantic sharpnose shark - - - - - <0.1 2.0
Spiny dogfish <0.1 0.2 <0.1 3.4 0.3 2.6 0.0
Little skate 10.7 36.0 20.3 - - 23.6 -
Winter skate - 6.7 1.7 0.1 - 1.6 -
Thorny skate - - 0.4 4.9 9.8 0.5 -
Alewife 56.5 92.4 82.1 93.1 99.9 68.3 -
Atlantic herring - - 4.3 97.6 97.2 2.3 0.0
Atlantic cod <0.1 1.3 5.4 3.8 21.1 3.1 -
Haddock 100.0 6.1 20.1 14.9 5.7 11.7 -
Silver hake 5.4 2.3 31.7 41.9 8.4 9.7 -
Pollock - - 32.4 39.3 0.5 0.0 -
Red hake 1.6 6.9 38.6 46.7 11.7 4.3 -
White hake - 0.3 3.5 21.1 0.0 0.1 -
Fawn cusk-eel 29.5 14.5 47.6 - - 66.5 -
Blackbelly rosefish 10.5 13.9 2.5 0.0 - - -
Acadian redfish - - 100.0 82.1 93.8 - -
Sea raven - 0.0 <0.1 0.0 0.0 <0.1 -
Longhorn sculpin - 5.9 4.3 7.0 <0.1 - -
Black sea bass 15.0 44.3 76.3 - - 8.2 0.5
Bluefish 0.0 0.0 0.0 - - 0.3 0.2
Scup 0.1 9.5 - - - 14.6 0.3
Weakfish 0.0 0.0 - - - 4.9 <0.1
Spot 3.4 - - - - 6.8 20.2
Southern kingfish - - - - - 4.8 20.9
Northern kingfish - - - - - 5.5 1.3
Ocean pout - 61.0 5.3 <0.1 100.0 <0.1 -
Atlantic wolfish - 33.3 0.1 4.2 0.5 0.0 -
Northern sand lance 61.6 57.5 79.8 70.7 - 87.8 -
Atlantic mackerel - 96.2 74.9 85.2 95.9 98.4 -
Butterfish 2.6 3.3 4.3 - - 1.3 0.1
Gulf Stream flounder 31.7 33.1 42.3 - - - -
Summer flounder 0.6 0.2 0.0 100.0 - 5.0 4.4
Fourspot flounder 1.4 3.8 2.3 - - - -
Windowpane 27.9 41.0 3.2 - - 67.8 0.0
Witch flounder - - 11.2 1.9 0.0 2.4 -
American plaice - - 2.2 1.3 0.0 0.2 -
Atlantic halibut - - <0.1 <0.1 <0.1 <0.1 -
Winter flounder 1.3 10.3 2.8 0.8 0.0 11.8 -
Yellowtail flounder - 54.8 14.6 - - 23.0 -

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