TM 161 Table 14

Home Table 14. Summary of Hudson-Raritan Estuary weakfish 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 = 0; ES = N/A)		Oct 96 (n = 66; ES = 12)		Jan 97 (n = 0; ES = N/A)		Apr 97 (n = 0; ES = N/A)		Aug 97 (n = 117; ES = 3)		Nov 97 (n = 14; ES = 57)
	FO	TV	FO	TV	FO	TV	FO	TV	FO	TV	FO	TV
Crangon septemspinosa	-	-	63.6	20.5	-	-	-	-	54.7	30.0	14.3	23.9
Neomysis americana	-	-	31.8	3.3	-	-	-	-	81.3	26.7	14.3	4.5
Unidentified fish (Anchoa?)	-	-	24.2	3.8	-	-	-	-	21.4	12.5	7.1	15.9
Gammarus lawrencianus	-	-	27.3	4.3	-	-	-	-	0.9	0.9	14.3	11.4
Unidentified organic matter	-	-	10.6	0.5	-	-	-	-	1.7	0.9	7.1	1.1
Anchoa mitchilli	-	-	13.5	17.3	-	-	-	-	1.9	<0.1	0.0	0.0
Ampelisca abdita	-	-	0.0	0.0	-	-	-	-	1.7	<0.1	7.1	3.4
Juvenile silver hake	-	-	0.0	0.0	-	-	-	-	0.0	0.0	7.1	36.4

(Modified Jun. 13 2008)