Resource Ecology and Ecosystem Modeling Groundish Diet Composition

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Diet table for Bering Sea Butterfly sculpin, Hemilepidotus papilio, collected in 1994
Number of Full Stomachs : 139
Number of Hauls: 17

Prey Name	Percent Weight	Percent Count	Percent Frequency
Polychaeta	15.72	1.00	55.65
Misc Worm	8.58	3.00	14.90
Walleye pollock	6.92	0.00	6.21
Gammaridea	6.72	9.00	52.32
Hippolytidae (shrimp)	6.02	11.00	24.18
Pandalidae (shrimp)	5.85	4.00	14.12
Misc Gadidae	4.38	4.00	14.35
Stichaeidae	3.01	2.00	5.95
Misc Org	2.98	0.00	7.25
Hyperiidea	2.54	3.00	21.34
Euphausiacea	2.31	2.00	9.77
Zoarcoidae	1.91	0.00	1.76
Cyclopteridae	1.51	0.00	1.18
Cottid	1.42	1.00	9.77
Pteropoda	1.32	0.00	7.81
Misc Teleost	1.01	0.00	4.31
Paguridae	0.63	0.00	2.42
Crangonidae (shrimp)	0.60	1.00	5.42
Misc Shrimp	0.59	0.00	8.50
Opilio Crab	0.53	1.00	3.33
Chionoecetes spp.	0.44	1.00	3.99
Isopoda	0.32	0.00	1.76
Capreillidea	0.24	0.00	2.06
Osmerid	0.24	0.00	0.59
Offal	0.19	0.00	0.59
Misc Lithodidae	0.12	0.00	0.59
Mysidacea	0.05	0.00	1.18
Agonidae	0.03	0.00	0.59
Cancridea	0.02	0.00	0.59
Unid Eggs	0.01	0.00	0.59
Pacific halibut	0.00	0.00	0.59
Alaska plaice	0.00	0.00	0.59

Sample locations for Bering Sea Butterfly sculpin, Hemilepidotus papilio, collected in 1994

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