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Food habits, dietary overlap and gastric evacuation rates of rockfishes (genus Sebastes)

Creator:

Brodeur, Richard D.

Abstract:

Euphausiids constituted the major food of five co-occuring species of rockfishes (Sebastes spp.). Copepods, decapods, cephalopods, amphipods, fishes and other pelagic prey were also consumed but were less important to the overall diet. Two species, S. flavidus and S. diploproa, were relatively euryphagous, utilizing a high number of prey taxa....

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis