Food‐habitat relationship of harbour seals and black cormorants in Skagerrak and Kattegat

• Published in: Journal of Zoology
• Main Author: Härkönen, Tero J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1988
• Subjects: Kattegat; harbour seal; Phoca vitulina
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1988.tb03766.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1469-7998.1988.tb03766.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1988.tb03766.x; https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1988.tb03766.x

Comparative studies on the food of the black cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo and the harbour seal Phoca vitulina were carried out in two contrasting habitat types. Both species feed predominantly on bottom‐dwelling fish. Black cormorants are able to utilize fish found both on vegetation‐covered and na...