Resource Ecology and Ecosystem Modeling Groundish Diet Composition

Note: You need to enable scripting and Javascript in your browser settings to best view and navigate our website. Otherwise, use our keyboard navigation and search page. For keyboard tabbing on this page you can bypass the top menu bar navigation and jump to the page sidebar navigation (if applicable), or jump to the page body. Our print link for screen media is scripted. Your computer's normal print command will print this page. Please contact us if you have difficulty in accessing our web pages.

Diet Compostion Tables > Pacific cod Home

Diet table for Gulf Of Alaska Pacific cod, Gadus macrocephalus, collected in 2005
Number of Full Stomachs : 255
Number of Hauls: 80

Prey Name	Percent Weight	Percent Count	Percent Frequency
Misc Anomura	16.69	7.00	29.00
Pandalidae (shrimp)	8.65	8.00	21.36
Crangonidae (shrimp)	7.13	6.00	28.16
Euphausiacea	5.94	1.00	18.01
Gammaridea	5.72	4.00	25.64
Misc Shrimp	5.42	2.00	19.11
Paguridae	4.52	2.00	15.02
Tanner Crab	4.47	3.00	8.86
Polychaeta	4.31	2.00	22.28
Stichaeidae	3.73	5.00	5.79
Hippolytidae (shrimp)	3.71	3.00	17.24
Misc Flatfish	3.04	3.00	7.85
Misc Teleost	2.69	5.00	12.37
Cottid	2.14	7.00	10.17
Cancridea	2.00	2.00	5.79
Walleye pollock	1.84	1.00	2.50
Misc Majidae	1.75	0.00	4.76
Agonidae	1.40	1.00	2.19
Teuthida	1.22	0.00	7.75
Ammodytidae	1.17	1.00	2.01
Atka Mackeral	1.16	0.00	0.42
Zoarcoidae	0.97	0.00	1.88
Arrowtooth flounder	0.89	2.00	2.50
Cnidaria	0.88	0.00	1.25
Misc Gadidae	0.81	0.00	0.94
Misc Worm	0.77	0.00	5.15
Chionoecetes spp.	0.77	0.00	2.13
Brittle Star	0.67	0.00	1.67
Copepoda	0.66	0.00	1.88
Misc Non-teleost fish	0.59	0.00	1.25
Clupeoidei	0.56	0.00	0.25
Octopoda	0.52	0.00	1.47
Offal	0.50	0.00	0.56
Bivalvia	0.37	0.00	5.49
Misc Cephalopoda	0.33	0.00	4.22
Misc Org	0.27	0.00	1.86
Misc Crab	0.20	0.00	1.22
Rajadae	0.19	0.00	0.42
Sebastes	0.16	0.00	0.25
Gastropod	0.14	0.00	5.35
Mysidacea	0.13	0.00	1.80
Pteropoda	0.13	0.00	0.91
Flathead sole	0.11	0.00	1.25
Misc Crustacea	0.09	0.00	1.30
Unid Rockfish	0.05	0.00	0.63
Isopoda	0.04	0.00	0.73
Misc Echinoderm	0.03	0.00	0.94
Hyperiidea	0.02	0.00	0.26
Osmerid	0.02	1.00	0.21
Capreillidea	0.00	0.00	0.18

Sample locations for Gulf Of Alaska Pacific cod, Gadus macrocephalus, collected in 2005

*If you have difficulty in accessing information via these webpages please contact the REEM Webmaster by email or phone (206.526.4196)

Home | FOIA | Privacy | USA.gov | Accessibility