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Table 17. Summary of other spotted hake diet studies for
the coastal Middle Atlantic Bight. (Major prey taxa ranked in relative
order of importance by: mean percent frequency of occurrence (FO), mean
percent contribution to total stomach content volume (TV), mean percent
contribution to total stomach content weight (TW), and mean percent contribution
to total number of individual items in the stomach (TN), as available from
each source.) |
|
Source |
Study Area |
Year(s)
(month(s), season(s),
and/or frequency) |
No. Examined
(size [TL cm]) or
age range, mean size) |
Primary Prey in Order of Importance
by FO, IRI, TDW, TN, TV, and/or TW |
| Linton, quoted in Hildebrand and Schroeder
(1928) |
Woods Hole, MA? |
Unknown |
141 (unknown) |
FO? -- "Mysis," shrimp, crabs, amphipods,
isopods, fish, polychaetes, leeches, sponges, and hydroids. |
| Richards (1963) |
Long Island Sound |
1955-57 (monthly) |
Sand station - 17 (6-20)
Mud station - 16 (5-19) |
FO -- Leptocheirus pinguis, Crangon,
and sand lance.
FO -- Sand lance, Corophium sp., and copepods
(Temora sp.). |
| Barans (1969) |
Chesapeake Bay |
1966-68 (Mar-Jul) |
600 (5-18) |
FO -- Crangon, other shrimp, Neomysis,
squid, polychaetes, and unidentified fish. |
| Kimmel (1973) |
Mouth of Chesapeake Bay |
1971-72 (spring) |
44 (3-20) |
TV -- Neomysis, Crangon, Ampelisca sp., other crustaceans, and bay anchovy. |
| Festa (1979) |
Little Egg Harbor, NJ |
1972-77 (spring/fall) |
16 (5-19) |
TV -- Crangon, Palaemonetes sp., and Neomysis.
FO -- Crangon and Neomysis. |
| Bowman et al. (1987) |
Southern New England |
1973-76 (spring/fall) |
244 (YOY) |
TW -- Euphausids, Crangon, and Dichelopandalus
leptocerus. |
| Rachlin and Warkentine (1987) |
Coastal New York Bight |
1973-74 (summer) |
156 (5-21) |
TN -- Neomysis, copepods (Acartia sp. and Temora sp.), Crangon, amphipods (Gammarus sp.), round herring (Etrumeus teres), and decapod crustacean larvae. |
| Allen et al. (1978) |
Hereford Inlet, NJ |
1973-77 (biweekly/monthly) |
101 (5-17) |
FO -- Crangon, mysids, detritus, and
copepods. |
| Sedberry (1983) |
New York Bight shelf |
1976-77 (seasonally) |
129 (< 20)
68 (>20) |
TV -- Atlantic rock crab, D. leptocerus, Crangon, unidentified hake, Gulf Stream flounder (Citharichthys
arctifrons), and amphipods.
TV -- As above, plus squid and juvenile sea scallops. |
| Homer and Boynton (1978) |
Chesapeake Bay, MD |
1977 (spring) |
19 (10-15) |
TW -- Crangon, juvenile Atlantic menhaden, Nereis succinea, bay anchovy, and juvenile spot. |
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