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Comparative characteristics of the diet of Pacific halibut Hippoglossus stenolepis from different areas of the northwestern part of the Pacific Ocean

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Food composition of Pacific halibut Hippoglossus stenolepis has been considered in three areas of the northwestern Pacific: in the western part of the Bering Sea, in Pacific waters off the northern Kuril Islands and southeastern Kamchatka, and waters off the southern Kuril Islands. The main food items in all studied regions were shrimp, cephalopods, and fish. It has been noted that fish offal plays a considerable role in the feeding of H. stenolepis in the western part of the Bering Sea. Changes in food composition in relation to fish growth, depth of catch, and sex of individuals have been analyzed; and differences in the composition of food items consumed by H. stenolepis in different parts of the studied areas have been considered.

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  1. Russian Federal Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO), Verkhnyaya Krasnosel’skaya 17, Moscow, 107140, Russia

    A. M. Orlov

  2. Sakhalin Research Institute of Fishery and Oceanography (SakhNIRO), ul. Komsomol’skaya 196, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, 693023, Russia

    I. N. Moukhametov

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Original Russian Text © A.M. Orlov, I.N. Moukhametov, 2007, published in Voprosy Ikhtiologii, 2007, Vol. 47, No. 6, pp. 783–793.

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Orlov, A.M., Moukhametov, I.N. Comparative characteristics of the diet of Pacific halibut Hippoglossus stenolepis from different areas of the northwestern part of the Pacific Ocean. J. Ichthyol. 47, 739–749 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S003294520709007X

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