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SUBMITTER: Lamb PD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6850654 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lamb Philip D PD Hunter Ewan E Pinnegar John K JK van der Kooij Jeroen J Creer Simon S Taylor Martin I MI
Journal of fish biology 20190312 6
To establish if fishes' consumption of jellyfish changes through the year, we conducted a molecular gut-content assessment on opportunistically sampled species from the Celtic Sea in October and compared these with samples previously collected in February and March from the Irish Sea. Mackerel Scomber scombrus were found to feed on hydrozoan jellyfish relatively frequently in autumn, with rare consumption also detected in sardine Sardina pilchardus and sprat Sprattus sprattus. By October, moon j ...[more]