Diet Overlap

Hippoglossus stenolepis (Pacific halibut)
Sebastes caurinus (Copper rockfish)

Common Diet

Ammodytes hexapterus (Stout sand lance)
Clupea pallasii (Pacific herring)

Common Habitat

Alaska
California Current
Canada
Gulf of Alaska
Mexico
Pacific Ocean
Pacific Rim National Park Reserve
Pacific, Eastern Central
Pacific, Northeast
United States

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Groundfish Food Habits and Predation on Commercially Important Prey Species in the Eastern Bering Sea From 1997 Through 2001, Lang, G. M., P. A. Livingston, and K. A. Dodd, 2005, U.S. Dep. Comer., NOAA Tech. Memo. NMFS-AFSC-158, 230 p.
♦ 2Food Web Relationships of Northern Puget Sound and the Strait of Juan de Fuca : a Synthesis of the Available Knowledge, Charles A. Simenstad, Bruce S. Miller, Carl F. Nyblade, Kathleen Thornburgh, and Lewis J. Bledsoe, EPA-600 7-29-259 September 1979
♦ 3Diet of Pacific halibut (Hippoglossus stenolepis) in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, I. N. Moukhametov, A. M. Orlov, and B. M. Leaman, INTERNATIONAL PACIFIC HALIBUT COMMISSION, Technical Report No. 52 (2008)
♦ 4Comparative feeding ecology of two sympatric rockfish congeners, Sebastes caurinus (copper rockfish) and S. maliger (quillback rockfish), D. J. Murie, Marine Biology (1995) 124: 341-353