Diet composition of the Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus L.) collected in 1998-1999 in the Icelandic Basin

• Main Authors: Pampoulie, Christophe, Ólafsdóttir, Anna H
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2020
• Subjects: Basin Scale Analysis; Synthesis and Integration; Code; EURO-BASIN; Iceland_Basin; Icelandic basin; Identification; LLDEP; Longline deployment; mesopelagic organisms; Month; NACLIM; North Atlantic; North Atlantic Climate; Number of prey; occurence; Occurrence; preys items; Sample ID; Species; SUMMER; Sustainable Management of Mesopelagic Resources; Thunnus thynnus; group; length class; Tuna diet; Year of observation; Iceland
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.915551; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.915551

This dataset presents the diet composition of tuna during autumn migrations to the Iceland Basin south of the continental shelf for the year 1998 and 1999 (area Va and XII defined by ICES). Each line in the dataset represents a different prey item found in the stomach of one tuna fish with a specifi...