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Table 2. Percentage
by weight of fish component of diet of piscivores 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 |
23.0
|
12.3
|
5.2
|
13.1
|
7.1
|
73.3
|
-
|
Longfin inshore squid |
17.0
|
15.3
|
7.6
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
21.4
|
17.8
|
Dusky shark |
17.9
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
86.2
|
21.5
|
Smooth dogfish |
10.1
|
7.8
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
5.8
|
24.6
|
Atlantic sharpnose shark |
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
77.1
|
81.0
|
Spiny dogfish |
72.7
|
55.8
|
49.9
|
40.9
|
30.6
|
60.4
|
92.4
|
Little skate |
24.2
|
1.7
|
2.9
|
-
|
-
|
17.5
|
-
|
Winter skate |
-
|
66.6
|
65.2
|
88.1
|
-
|
88.2
|
-
|
Thorny skate |
-
|
-
|
68.1
|
38.3
|
15.4
|
64.8
|
-
|
Alewife |
1.9
|
2.0
|
0.4
|
0.1
|
-
|
7.3
|
-
|
Atlantic herring |
-
|
-
|
0.0
|
<0.1
|
-
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
Atlantic cod |
74.2
|
71.9
|
40.3
|
43.8
|
4.0
|
61.4
|
-
|
Haddock |
-
|
<0.1
|
<0.1
|
3.9
|
<0.1
|
0.0
|
-
|
Silver hake |
74.1
|
88.9
|
62.2
|
50.2
|
85.7
|
51.6
|
-
|
Pollock |
-
|
-
|
56.1
|
4.9
|
15.4
|
100.0
|
-
|
Red hake |
51.9
|
31.5
|
8.9
|
22.6
|
30.9
|
51.3
|
-
|
White hake |
-
|
97.8
|
55.2
|
42.9
|
51.0
|
93.5
|
-
|
Fawn cusk-eel |
0.0
|
19.9
|
0.0
|
-
|
-
|
0.0
|
-
|
Goosefish |
96.0
|
63.2
|
28.5
|
81.1
|
91.2
|
46.6
|
-
|
Blackbelly rosefish |
10.1
|
2.9
|
0.6
|
0.0
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
Acadian redfish |
-
|
-
|
0.0
|
15.6
|
<0.1
|
-
|
-
|
Sea raven |
-
|
0.0
|
44.2
|
97.6
|
36.5
|
90.6
|
-
|
Longhorn sculpin |
-
|
1.0
|
12.9
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
-
|
-
|
Black sea bass |
23.6
|
3.0
|
0.0
|
-
|
-
|
18.4
|
44.8
|
Bluefish |
98.1
|
4.6
|
33.9
|
-
|
-
|
75.5
|
94.1
|
Scup |
0.0
|
0.8
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
30.0
|
55.7
|
Weakfish |
0.0
|
100.0
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
76.3
|
74.1
|
Spot |
0.0
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
0.1
|
9.9
|
Southern kingfish |
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
6.4
|
21.0
|
Northern kingfish |
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
27.9
|
5.2
|
Ocean pout |
-
|
<0.1
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
<0.1
|
-
|
Northern sand lance |
6.5
|
2.5
|
0.5
|
0.0
|
-
|
<0.1
|
-
|
Atlantic mackerel |
-
|
0.0
|
<0.1
|
0.2
|
2.4
|
0.0
|
-
|
Butterfish |
<0.1
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
-
|
-
|
<0.1
|
0.2
|
Gulf Stream flounder |
0.0
|
6.8
|
0.0
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
Summer flounder |
95.7
|
43.2
|
100.0
|
0.0
|
-
|
60.3
|
90.2
|
Fourspot flounder |
41.6
|
19.5
|
0.3
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
Windowpane |
55.7
|
23.6
|
71.6
|
-
|
-
|
22.1
|
0.0
|
Atlantic halibut |
-
|
-
|
84.0
|
51.8
|
25.7
|
97.3
|
-
|
Winter flounder |
0.0
|
<0.1
|
5.2
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
2.1
|
-
|
Yellowtail flounder |
-
|
0.9
|
0.0
|
-
|
-
|
0.9
|
-
|
|