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Food Habits Metadata
Quantitative data since 1973 available from collections during bottom trawl surveys.
Range from Cape Hatteras, North Carolina to Nova Scotia in all four seasons.
Over 83,700 nm2 covered.
Over 150 species sampled and over 45 species with more than 1,000 stomachs across four decades.
Over 750,000 prey records in the database.
Over 600,000 stomach samples in the database.
Over 1,300 prey items.
Unidentified fish, unclassified crustaceans, and animal remains were the most commonly encountered prey items in the database, indicating that much of the observed prey is well digested.
Major prey, common to numerous predators, are Ammodytes spp., Euphausiids, Polychaetes, Crangon septemspinosa, and Gammarids.
Major prey phyla include Arthropoda, Mollusca, Chordata, Annelida, Echinodermata, Cnidaria, Porifera, Ctenophora, Platyhelminthes, and Bryozoa.