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Table 10. Summary of Hudson-Raritan Estuary summer flounder diet by sampling period during 1996-97, expressed as the percent frequency of occurrence of dominant prey or items (FO), and as the mean percent contribution of dominant prey or items to total stomach content volume (TV). (n = sample size; ES = percent of empty stomachs.)

Prey
Sampling Period
Jul 96
(n = 50;
ES = 10.0)
Oct 96
(n = 8;
ES = 25.0)
Jan 97
(n = 5;
ES = 40.0)
Apr 97
(n = 38;
ES = 50.0)
Aug 97
(n = 128;
ES = 25.0)
Nov 97
(n = 0;
ES = N/A)
FO
TV
FO
TV
FO
TV
FO
TV
FO
TV
FO
TV
Crangon septemspinosa 78.0 44.0 75.0 41.2 60.0 89.3 36.8 31.4 34.4 12.2 - -
Neomysis americana 30.0 19.6 0.0 0.0 20.0 10.7 5.3 3.1 33.6 11.5 - -
Unidentified juvenile fish 14.0 9.1 12.5 21.0 0.0 0.0 13.2 10.9 12.5 4.3 - -
Juvenile Ovalipes ocellatus 2.0 1.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 32.0 17.1 - -
Unidentified organic matter 2.0 0.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 5.3 0.2 8.6 3.9 - -
Unidentified juvenile flounder 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 7.9 24.0 2.3 1.7 - -
Juvenile windowpane 4.0 9.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.5 6.5 - -
Juvenile Atlantic rock crab 4.0 7.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 7.8 7.0 - -

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