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Table 7.  Percentage by weight of all other prey (other than those noted in Tables 2-6) in diet of predators 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 31.2 37.6 31.6 37.8 18.1 19.5 -
Longfin inshore squid 69.3 69.2 89.0 29.9 100.0 65.3 76.2
Dusky shark 3.1 - - - - 0.3 3.1
Smooth dogfish 9.4 1.1 - - - 11.0 5.0
Atlantic sharpnose shark - - - - - 0.8 6.4
Spiny dogfish 21.0 20.5 27.2 30.9 42.7 16.0 2.6
Little skate 19.1 14.9 14.7 - - 6.2 -
Winter skate - 6.0 13.3 0.1 - 1.0 -
Thorny skate - - 2.4 9.4 2.1 1.6 -
Alewife 39.1 5.6 17.5 6.8 0.1 23.8 -
Atlantic herring - - 95.7 2.4 2.8 97.7 100.0
Atlantic cod 0.4 3.5 15.1 3.2 64.9 12.0 -
Haddock 0.0 38.7 59.1 70.4 56.0 37.2 -
Silver hake 0.7 1.1 0.5 1.1 0.5 0.5 -
Pollock - - 2.2 3.8 1.1 0.0 -
Red hake 4.9 4.2 11.6 7.6 2.3 5.5 -
White hake - 0.3 1.8 1.1 1.2 1.0 -
Fawn cusk-eel 5.1 21.9 8.7 - - 0.0 -
Goosefish 1.0 1.2 0.7 2.4 <0.1 0.1 -
Blackbelly rosefish 7.1 32.9 51.4 0.0 - - -
Acadian redfish - - 0.0 1.8 0.6 - -
Sea raven - 35.2 0.7 0.9 0.0 1.0 -
Longhorn sculpin - 2.6 6.8 2.7 3.3 - -
Black sea bass 8.0 0.0 2.6 - - 11.3 21.6
Bluefish 0.6 0.1 0.3 - - 0.8 0.7
Scup 30.4 53.0 - - - 17.1 21.3
Weakfish 100.0 0.0 - - - 0.8 0.6
Spot 92.3 - - - - 17.6 63.9
Southern kingfish - - - - - 21.1 5.0
Northern kingfish - - - - - 6.0 1.6
Ocean pout - 24.9 88.3 93.5 0.0 100.0 -
Atlantic wolfish - 66.7 92.0 81.0 77.5 87.8 -
Northern sand lance 31.9 40.0 19.7 29.3 - 12.2 -
Atlantic mackerel - 3.8 22.4 14.6 1.7 1.6 -
Butterfish 97.4 92.8 95.4 - - 95.2 99.8
Gulf Stream flounder 4.8 7.9 5.7 - - - -
Summer flounder <0.1 0.4 0.0 0.0 - 0.8 0.2
Fourspot flounder 2.2 6.4 1.4 - - - -
Windowpane 1.3 2.2 7.6 - - 1.7 0.0
Witch flounder - - 12.1 15.5 25.3 6.9 -
American plaice - - 97.2 96.7 100.0 74.5 -
Atlantic halibut - - 0.5 0.8 1.8 0.1 -
Winter flounder 22.0 44.7 67.4 59.3 100.0 37.2 -
Yellowtail flounder - 13.8 12.9 - - 11.0 -

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