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Table A-4. Diet composition and sampling data for slender snipe eel, conger eel. blueback herring, hickory shad. American shad, Atlantic thread 

 herring, Spanish sardine, striped anchovy, and Atlantic salmon. (Subscripts indicate data source: 1 = 1977-80 trawl survey, and 4 = 

 1963-66 trawl survey. Superscripts indicate data type: # = percentage by occurrence, and none = percentage by weight. Squared 

 brackets indicate major taxon subtotal; parentheses indicate minor taxon subtotal.) 



