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Table 3. Percentage
by weight of squid component of diet of predators which eat squid 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 |
36.1
|
30.3
|
40.8
|
22.7
|
70.0
|
3.2
|
-
|
| Longfin inshore squid |
10.1
|
8.0
|
0.3
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
8.0
|
4.6
|
| Dusky shark |
0.0
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
12.2
|
24.6
|
| Smooth dogfish |
3.7
|
0.7
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
10.1
|
<0.1
|
| Atlantic sharpnose shark |
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
0.0
|
7.1
|
| Spiny dogfish |
5.0
|
22.4
|
17.2
|
24.7
|
26.3
|
9.1
|
3.4
|
| Winter skate |
-
|
10.2
|
6.9
|
11.7
|
-
|
0.0
|
-
|
| Thorny skate |
-
|
-
|
6.4
|
32.6
|
16.3
|
<0.1
|
-
|
| Alewife |
2.5
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
-
|
| Atlantic cod |
0.0
|
<0.1
|
1.6
|
43.6
|
0.0
|
<0.1
|
-
|
| Haddock |
0.0
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
1.3
|
1.9
|
0.0
|
-
|
| Silver hake |
17.0
|
3.2
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
3.5
|
32.7
|
-
|
| Pollock |
-
|
-
|
5.9
|
46.8
|
80.9
|
0.0
|
-
|
| Red hake |
0.0
|
30.1
|
6.2
|
1.4
|
23.6
|
0.5
|
-
|
| White hake |
-
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
29.5
|
40.1
|
0.0
|
-
|
| Goosefish |
0.0
|
22.7
|
49.6
|
14.6
|
3.5
|
53.3
|
-
|
| Blackbelly rosefish |
0.0
|
0.0
|
4.5
|
0.0
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
| Sea raven |
-
|
0.0
|
3.6
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
<0.1
|
-
|
| Black sea bass |
1.6
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
-
|
-
|
5.3
|
5.5
|
| Bluefish |
1.3
|
95.3
|
65.8
|
-
|
-
|
22.2
|
3.5
|
| Scup |
0.0
|
0.0
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
15.8
|
0.0
|
| Weakfish |
0.0
|
0.0
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
5.9
|
19.0
|
| Atlantic mackerel |
-
|
<0.1
|
0.5
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
-
|
| Summer flounder |
1.3
|
55.6
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
-
|
31.1
|
-
|
| Fourspot flounder |
0.0
|
45.3
|
73.1
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
| Atlantic halibut |
-
|
-
|
15.4
|
25.4
|
22.9
|
1.1
|
-
|
|