Feeding by grey seals on endangered stocks of Atlantic cod and white hake

• Published in: ICES Journal of Marine Science
• Main Authors: Hammill, M.O., Stenson, G.B., Swain, D.P., Benoît, H.P.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 2014
• Subjects: Original Articles; Breton Island; Cabot; Canada; Hake; atlantic cod
• Online Access: http://icesjms.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/71/6/1332; https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsu123

High natural mortality is preventing the recovery of collapsed stocks of Atlantic cod and white hake in the southern Gulf of St Lawrence, Canada. Predation by grey seals has been proposed as an important cause of this high mortality. We determined the contribution of cod and hake to the diet of grey...