Diet Overlap

Urophycis chuss (Squirrel hake)
Cynoscion regalis (Weakfish)

Common Diet

Ammodytes dubius (offshore sand lance)
Crangon septemspinosa (sevenspine bay shrimp)
Dichelopandalus leptocerus (bristled longbeak)
Gammarus lawrencianus
Illex illecebrosus (northern shortfin squid)
Neomysis americana (Mysid shrimp)

Common Habitat

Gateway National Recreation Area

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Food of Northwest Atlantic Fishes and Two Common Species of Squid, Ray E. Bowman, Charles E. Stillwell, William L. Michaels, and Marvin D. Grosslein, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-NE-155 (2000)
♦ 2 Steimle FW, Pikanowski RA, McMillan DG, Zetlin CA, Wilk SJ. 2000. Demersal Fish and American Lobster Diets in the Lower Hudson - Raritan Estuary. US Dep Commer, NOAA Tech Memo NMFS NE 161; 106 p.
♦ 3Feeding Spectrum and Trophic Relationships of Short-finned Squid (Illex illecebrosus) in the Northwest Atlantic, Yu. M. Froerman, NAFO Sci. Coun. Studies, 7: 67-75 (1984)