Resource Ecology and Ecosystem Modeling Groundish Diet Composition

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Diet table for Aleutian Islands Atka mackerel, Pleurogrammus monopterygius, collected in 2002
Number of Full Stomachs : 430
Number of Hauls: 39

Prey Name	Percent Weight	Percent Count	Percent Frequency
Copepoda	46.20	0.00	76.37
Euphausiacea	22.19	7.00	57.88
Hyperiidea	8.41	5.00	46.03
Polychaeta	3.53	3.00	8.09
Misc Teleost	2.89	17.00	6.16
Teuthida	2.74	3.00	8.14
Atka Mackeral	1.83	7.00	1.20
Pandalidae (shrimp)	1.77	1.00	1.48
Gastropod	1.51	12.00	18.66
Gammaridea	1.18	2.00	12.94
Osmerid	0.81	1.00	0.85
Chaetognatha	0.78	0.00	14.89
Misc Crustacea	0.32	0.00	2.80
Pteropoda	0.31	0.00	8.62
Misc Org	0.28	1.00	1.28
Capreillidea	0.23	0.00	3.20
Misc Cephalopoda	0.20	1.00	4.10
Stichaeidae	0.07	0.00	0.18
Mysidacea	0.06	0.00	1.42
Misc Shrimp	0.04	3.00	2.97
Misc Mollusca	0.02	0.00	0.62
Cumacea	0.02	0.00	0.31
Myctophidae	0.02	0.00	0.17
Unid Rockfish	0.02	0.00	0.17
Ctenophora	0.02	0.00	0.61
Isopoda	0.02	0.00	0.15
Octopoda	0.02	0.00	0.75
Cottid	0.01	4.00	0.98
Misc Flatfish	0.01	0.00	0.17
Misc Crab	0.01	2.00	1.61
Hippolytidae (shrimp)	0.00	0.00	0.18
Bivalvia	0.00	0.00	0.34
Fish Eggs	0.00	0.00	0.33

Sample locations for Aleutian Islands Atka mackerel, Pleurogrammus monopterygius, collected in 2002

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