ICES Journal of Marine Science, 63: 1075e1085 (2006)

• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2004
• Subjects: Bay of Biscay; diet; feeding ecology; Northeast Atlantic; swordfish; Xiphias gladius; Brama
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.535.6018; http://icesjms.oxfordjournals.org/content/63/6/1075.full.pdf

ow nloaded from pomfret (Brama brama), and the squid Todarodes sagittatus, Ommastrephes bartramii, and Gonatus steenstrupi, dominated the diet by mass. The overall prey size range was 11e1420 mm, but sizes of 60e360 mm accounted for 80 % of the distribution by number and of 140e760 mm for 80 % of the distribution by mass. Intraspecifically, larger swordfish ate larger prey as a result of a change in species composition of the diet. The swordfish ap-pears to show feeding plasticity both between different areas and between animals in the same area.