TM 161 Table 12

Home Table 12. Summary of Hudson-Raritan Estuary red hake 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 = 1; ES = 0)		Oct 96 (n = 0; ES = N/A)		Jan 97 (n = 62; ES = 5)		Apr 97 (n = 64; ES = 0)		Aug 97 (n = 7; ES = 14)		Nov 97 (n = 32; ES = 0)
	FO	TV	FO	TV	FO	TV	FO	TV	FO	TV	FO	TV
Crangon septemspinosa	100.0	50.0	-	-	85.5	47.4	91.2	46.2	71.4	47.5	56.3	23.3
Gammarus lawrencianus	100.0	50.0	-	-	8.1	9.5	10.3	1.5	0.0	0.0	43.8	18.8
Neomysis americana	0.0	0.0	-	-	48.4	30.3	39.7	14.5	28.6	26.2	12.5	2.4
Unidentified organic matter	0.0	0.0	-	-	8.1	0.9	20.6	6.2	14.3	3.3	3.1	1.0
Juvenile Atlantic rock crab	0.0	0.0	-	-	1.6	1.0	7.3	1.1	0.0	0.0	6.3	2.8
Unidentified fish	0.0	0.0	-	-	0.0	0.0	1.5	3.3	0.0	0.0	12.5	3.7
Dichelopandalus leptocerus	0.0	0.0	-	-	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	14.3	23.0	0.0	0.0

(Modified Jun. 13 2008)