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Table 4 



Percent IRI of various food items of female Cynoglossus lida caught commercially off Porto Novo, India, October 1981-September 

 1982. See Table 1 for abbreviations. 



Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May June July Aug. Sep. Oct. Nov. Dec. Total 

 Food items A^ 42 16 18 51 31 59 25 62 25 76 207 28 



Polychaetes 



Crustacean fr. 



Prawns 



Amphipods 



Fish scales 



Fish eggs 



Lingula sp. 



Algae 



Crabs 



Isopods 



Bivalves 



Squilla sp. 



Nematode 



Copepods 



Gastropods 



Coscinodiscus 



Medusae 



Egg mass (UI) 



Fish spine 



17.7 58.8 58.1 84.5 60.8 73.4 63.3 95.0 93.4 87.9 94.2 



48.5 



26.5 



0.3 



4.4 



0.4 



1.3 

 0.1 

 0.0 

 0.3 

 0.1 

 0.3 

 0.0 

 0.0 



0.1 

 0.0 



12.5 

 13.6 

 12.0 



0.1 



1.2 

 1.0 

 0.1 



0.5 

 0.1 



0.1 



7.7 

 17.3 

 8.2 

 1.2 

 0.3 

 6.7 



0.2 



0.2 



0.1 



2.0 

 7.6 



4.1 

 0.0 



0.0 



5.2 



31.3 



2.4 



0.2 



0.1 

 0.0 



5.0 



20.3 



0.9 



0.4 



0.0 

 0.0 

 0.0 



0.0 



10.3 



16.7 



7.9 



1.4 



0.6 

 1.8 

 2.6 

 0.0 



0.0 



0.0 



0.3 



0.1 



1.2 

 2.9 



0.9 



0.9 

 0.3 



0.0 



0.3 

 0.1 



0.8 

 4.2 

 0.9 

 6.0 



0.1 

 0.1 



0.0 

 0.0 



0.3 

 2.5 

 2.8 

 0.0 



0.0 

 0.0 

 0.2 



0.0 

 0.0 

 0.0 



4.0 

 78.7 

 2.5 

 0.0 

 2.6 

 7.5 



4.6 

 0.1 



0.0 



640 



0.0 



791.1 



172.8 



147.2 



42.1 



16.2 



9.2 



8.5 



7.1 



1.3 



1.3 



1.2 



0.6 



0.4 



0.3 



0.4 



0.2 



0.1 



0.0 



0.0 



(65.9) 

 (14.4) 

 (12.3) 

 (3.5) 

 (1.4) 

 (0.8) 

 (0.7) 

 (0.6) 

 (0.1) 

 (0.1) 

 (0.1) 

 (0.1) 

 (0.0) 

 (0.0) 

 (0.0) 

 (0.0) 

 (0.0) 

 (0.0) 

 (0.0) 



