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Table 5. Percentage
by weight of decapod crustacean component of diet of predators which eat
decapods 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 |
1.2 |
1.2 |
<0.1 |
<0.1 |
<0.1 |
<0.1 |
- |
Longfin inshore squid |
0.2 |
<0.1 |
<0.1 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
1.3 |
0.0 |
Dusky shark |
79.0 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
0.2 |
4.8 |
Smooth dogfish |
74.2 |
89.2 |
- |
- |
- |
70.0 |
59.9 |
Atlantic sharpnose shark |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
22.1 |
3.6 |
Spiny dogfish |
1.3 |
1.1 |
5.7 |
0.1 |
0.1 |
11.9 |
1.6 |
Little skate |
42.8 |
25.7 |
47.1 |
- |
- |
49.4 |
- |
Winter skate |
- |
1.5 |
4.5 |
0.0 |
- |
6.5 |
- |
Thorny skate |
- |
- |
17.1 |
5.8 |
10.9 |
3.5 |
- |
Alewife |
0.0 |
0.7 |
0.3 |
<0.1 |
0.0 |
15.4 |
- |
Atlantic herring |
- |
- |
0.0 |
<0.1 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
- |
Atlantic cod |
24.3 |
17.9 |
34.1 |
5.5 |
10.0 |
21.6 |
- |
Haddock |
0.0 |
8.1 |
2.2 |
1.7 |
7.0 |
8.9 |
- |
Silver hake |
2.8 |
4.5 |
5.6 |
6.8 |
1.9 |
5.5 |
- |
Pollock |
- |
- |
3.4 |
5.2 |
2.1 |
0.0 |
- |
Red hake |
41.0 |
25.5 |
33.3 |
19.3 |
30.3 |
29.0 |
- |
White hake |
- |
1.6 |
39.3 |
5.4 |
7.7 |
5.1 |
- |
Fawn cusk-eel |
19.0 |
30.1 |
17.4 |
- |
- |
11.4 |
- |
Blackbelly rosefish |
72.3 |
39.1 |
39.2 |
84.2 |
- |
- |
- |
Acadian redfish |
- |
- |
0.0 |
0.5 |
5.6 |
- |
- |
Sea raven |
- |
64.8 |
51.5 |
1.5 |
63.5 |
8.4 |
- |
Longhorn sculpin |
- |
85.5 |
74.9 |
72.4 |
94.2 |
- |
- |
Black sea bass |
48.1 |
52.4 |
21.1 |
- |
- |
55.9 |
32.4 |
Bluefish |
0.0 |
0.0 |
<0.1 |
- |
- |
0.4 |
1.2 |
Scup |
17.0 |
2.7 |
- |
- |
- |
7.7 |
2.0 |
Weakfish |
0.0 |
0.0 |
- |
- |
- |
11.1 |
6.2 |
Spot |
2.6 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
2.3 |
2.5 |
Southern kingfish |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
43.1 |
51.1 |
Northern kingfish |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
46.2 |
90.7 |
Ocean pout |
- |
10.2 |
5.8 |
0.8 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
- |
Atlantic wolfish |
- |
0.0 |
7.9 |
14.6 |
22.0 |
12.2 |
- |
Atlantic mackerel |
- |
0.0 |
2.1 |
<0.1 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
- |
Butterfish |
0.0 |
0.2 |
0.3 |
- |
- |
0.2 |
0.0 |
Gulf Stream flounder |
2.5 |
9.0 |
5.6 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
Summer flounder |
2.4 |
0.6 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
- |
2.8 |
5.2 |
Fourspot flounder |
48.8 |
20.9 |
22.9 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
Windowpane |
14.6 |
32.7 |
15.3 |
- |
- |
7.5 |
100.0 |
American plaice |
- |
- |
0.1 |
1.0 |
0.0 |
17.4 |
- |
Atlantic halibut |
- |
- |
0.1 |
22.0 |
49.6 |
1.5 |
- |
Winter flounder |
2.5 |
1.2 |
0.4 |
2.8 |
0.0 |
0.4 |
- |
Yellowtail flounder |
- |
1.6 |
0.6 |
- |
- |
39.5 |
- |
|