Diet Overlap

Alosa sapidissima (American shad)
Lophius americanus (Monkfish)

Common Diet

Merluccius bilinearis (Whiting)

Common Habitat

Atlantic Ocean
Atlantic, Northwest
Atlantic, Western Central
Canada
United States

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)
♦ 2Food and Ontogenetic Shifts in Feeding of the Goosefish, Lophius Americanus, Michael P. Armstrong, John A. Musick, and James A. Colvocoresses, J. Northw. Atl. Fish. Sci., Vol. 18: 99–103