The food of coarse fish

Remarkably little has been published on the feeding habits of the non-salmonid fishes of British fresh waters. The following report briefly summarizes the results obtained from the examination of the stomach contents of some 2,700 fish, belonging to 19 species, which were obtained during 1939. The results of all examinations of gut contents were analysed, species by species, upon a simple basis of the presence of different types of food. Foodstuffs were divided up into six main categories— fish, molluscs, insects, crustaceans, higher plants together with filamentous algae, and diatoms—and the occurrence of members of any of these categories was recorded for each fish.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hartley, P.H.T.
Format: book biblioteca
Language:English
Published: Freshwater Biological Association 1940
Subjects:Biology, Fisheries, Limnology, Coarse fish, Feeding, Feeding behaviour, Fishery surveys, Food organisms, Gutting, England,
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1834/22847
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