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Table 2. — Summary of ingestion experiments for larval walleye pollock. Smax is estimated asymptotic 

 gut content and Fis instantaneous rate of gut filling. Parameters were estimated from the equation: S = 

 Smax X (1 - e'^O (see text). 



'Percent of gut content to larval dry weight. 



Table 3. — Oxygen consumption rates at 6.2°C for larval walleye pollock at 

 different experimental activity levels. The number of replicates per treat- 

 ment was 3-5. Values in parentheses are for yolk-free weights. 



The relationships of O2 consumption rate 

 (|xL/h/individual) and mean larval dry weight 

 (W, in fjLg) of feeding larvae for the different 

 metabolic levels were 



M,, = 0.00276 W«-^™" 

 M,„ = 0.00253 W*'-^*'^^ 

 Mrn = 0.00308 W^-^^^ 

 M„ =0.00176^1"^^ 



(r = 0.844, w = 26) 

 (r = 0.807, n = 27) 

 (r = 0.845, n = 25) 

 (r = 0.906, n = 25) 



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