BRAY and EBELING: THREE "PICKER-TYPE" FISHES 



Table 1.- Among-season comparison of diets of the three fishes. The first three ranking food items with their percent volume are listed 

 in order for each period. Sample size is the number of diets (fish) pooled per period; W is Kendall's coefficient of rank correlation. 



•Significant at P<0.01 



Table 2.-Mean proportionate volume and percent frequency of occurrence of 25 food items in frrreguts of 

 50 kelp perch, 55 white seaperch, and 53 senoritas. Food items are listed by their presumed major source. 



Small crustaceans that normally move freely on 

 and about the kelp surfaces were almost equal to 

 plankton in dietary importance. Gammarid 

 amphipods, which may cluster just as abundantly 

 about the kelp as in and about the tufted mat of 



plants and animals on the bottom, ranked second 

 in overall abundance and frequency. Surprisingly 

 unimportant were the so-called "kelp mysids," 

 which are very abundant in the canopy and are 

 commonly eaten by other fishes (Clarke 1971). 



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