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TABLE NO. 13. FISH-EATING FOOD AND GAME FISHES. 
Per cent. of 
Foop anp GAME Fisn. Fish eaten. molluscan 
food. 
Pickerel, Hsox lucius. Buffalo, Ictiobus bubalus. 30 
Carp, Cyprinus carpio. 15 
Gizzard-shad, Dorosoma. 1 
Suckers, Catostomide. 23 
Carp-minnows, Cyprinide. 2to 15 
Mooneye, Hiodon. Varying. 
*QLarge-mouth Black Bass. 
Micropterus salmoides. Common Perch, Perca flavescens. 8 
Gizzard-shad, Dorosoma. 1 
Catfishes, Siluridee. 05) 
Log-perch, Percina caprodes. 1 
*Small-mouth Black Bass. Carp-minnows, Cyprinide. 2 to 15 
Micropterus dolomieu. 
Sand-pike, Stizostedion canadense White Perch, A plodinotus grunniens. 100 
griseum. Gizzard-shad, Dorosoma. 1 
Catfishes, Siluride. 5 15 
Wall-eyed Pike, Stizostedion vitreum. Carp-minnows, Cyprinidx. | 2to 15 
Gizzard-shad, Dorosoma. 
Great-lake Trout. 
Cristivomer namycush. Whitefish, Coregonus. 26 
* These fish are known to eat a small ratio of mussels. 
ONEIDA LAKE MOLLUSK-EATING FISH. 
Of the fourteen species of fishes from Oneida Lake which 
have been examined as to their food, eight are mollusk-eaters, 
the ratios running from 1 to 66 per cent. The Pumpkin- 
seed shows the largest ratio eaten, even in the juvenile stage. 
The relations of the mollusks to the fishes are shown in Table 
No. 14. This table is quite inconclusive because only a small 
percentage of Oneida Lake fish (14) have been examined 
and more specimens of those examined should be studied as to 
their food habits. In the previous tables (12 and 13) it has 
been shown that the mollusks form 31.50 per cent. or about 
one-third of the food of 25 food and game fishes of New 
York and, indirectly, 15 per cent., or about one-sixth of the 
food of six important fish-eating food and game fish. Of the 
158 species of fish inhabiting the fresh waters of New York 
State 30, or about one-fifth, are eaters of mollusks. 
