Diet Overlap

Mycteroperca microlepis (Velvet rockfish)
Scomber scombrus (Split)

Common Diet

Neomysis americana (Mysid shrimp)

Common Habitat

Atlantic Ocean
Atlantic, Northwest
Atlantic, Western Central
Northeast U.S. Continental Shelf
United States

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Ontogenetic Shifts in the Diet of Gag, Mycteroperca microlepis, (Goode and Bean), (Pisces: Serranidae), Michael D. Mullaney, Jr., Proceedings of the 43rd Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute, pp. 432-445 (1994)
♦ 2Food 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)