Ontogenetic Diet Comparison of Atlantic Cod and White Hake Occurring at Historically Low Population Abundances

• Published in: Transactions of the American Fisheries Society
• Main Author: Hanson, John Mark
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2011
• Subjects: Aquatic Science; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Arctic; Hake; atlantic cod; Gadus morhua
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00028487.2011.607049; https://afspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00028487.2011.607049

Abstract Abundances of Atlantic cod Gadus morhua and white hake Urophycis tenuis have dropped to historically low levels in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence. Stomach samples were collected during late summer 2001 and 2002 to compare ontogenetic diet patterns at a time when food presumably was not l...