Food and Feeding Habits Summary

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Food and Feeding Habits Summary Phoca vitulina

Main Ref.	Brown, E.G. and G.J. Pierce, 1998
Fish stage	juv./adults	Mean length	none
Sample size		Percent empty
Country	UK	Locality	southeast Shetland
Period	January February March April May June July August September October November December Highlighted items on the list are known Feeding Periods of Phoca vitulina

Diet percent	Food I	Food II	Food III	Prey stage	Item Name	Comments
1.03 %	nekton	finfish	bony fish	juv./adults	Σ other fish	1.7% Σ Other fish.
2.97 %	nekton	finfish	bony fish	juv./adults	Belone belone	4.9% Belone belone.
4.00 %	nekton	finfish	bony fish	juv./adults	Molva molva	6.6% Molva molva.
4.43 %	nekton	finfish	bony fish	juv./adults	Clupea harengus	7.3% Clupea harengus.
5.40 %	nekton	finfish	bony fish	juv./adults	Σ Trisopterus	7.9% Σ Trisopterus; 1% Trisopterus minutus.
8.37 %	nekton	finfish	bony fish	juv./adults	Σ pelagic fish	13.8% Σ All pelagic fish.
15.35 %	nekton	finfish	bony fish	juv./adults	Merlangius merlangus	25.3% Merlangius merlangus.
17.29 %	nekton	finfish	bony fish	juv./adults	Σ sandeels	28.5% Sandeels.
39.69 %	nekton	finfish	bony fish	juv./adults	Σ Gadidae	53.4% Σ All Gadidae; 11.1% Pollachius virens; 0.9% Melanogrammus aeglefinus.
1.46 %	nekton	cephalopods	squids/cuttlefish	juv./adults	Σ Cephalopoda	2.4% Σ Cephalopods.