Goosefish diet

Preliminary Information for Goosefish proposal development

This is a quick and dirty summary of NMFS diet data 1973-80 and 1981-90.

Only a few known predators of goosefish from standard bottom trawl surveys, including:

1973-80:

goosefish (Freq. =1, N=745 stomachs).

1981-90:

cod (Freq=2, N=6943)
Spiny dogfish (Freq=11, N=19620)
Smooth dogfish(Freq=1, N=1680)
Goosefish (Freq=1, N=1108)
Sandbar shark (Freq=1, N=57)
Sandtiger shark (Freq=1, N=19)

Diets (quick and dirty pies I developed long time ago, have similar for all species, also lots more tabulated data, see Fish Diets Page for other species).

Data pooled over all years, seasons, geographic areas and size classes: 1977-80, 1981-90
Diets by season: 1977-80, 1981-90
Diets by year: 1977-80
Diets by geographic area: 1977-80, 1981-90
Diets by 20 size classes (percent of maximum size): 1977-80, 1981-90

More information can be found in other main diet pages (below).

This page was last modified on July 20, 2001