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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 -

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