Table 2.
Data set used to examine energy content and proximate composition of forage species in southeastern Alaska
| 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May | Sep | Dec | Mar | Apr | May | Jul | Sep | Dec | Jan | Mar | May | Jul | Sep | Jan | Feb | Mar | May | |
| Epipelagic | ||||||||||||||||||
| Capelin | 9 | 20 | 16 | 20 | 4 | 14 | 4 | |||||||||||
| Chinook salmon | 3 | 2 | 14 | 3 | 10 | 4 | ||||||||||||
| Pacific herring | 17 | 20 | 20 | 11 | 21 | 10 | 20 | 31 | 18 | 16 | 36 | 22 | 24 | 32 | ||||
| Pacific sand lance | 7 | 10 | 6 | 7 | ||||||||||||||
| Walleye pollock (Juvenile) | 2 | 20 | 17 | 4 | 8 | 19 | 18 | 23 | 40 | |||||||||
| Walleye pollock (YOY) | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 15 | ||||||||||||
| Mesopelagic | ||||||||||||||||||
| California headlightfish | 1 | 4 | 16 | 11 | ||||||||||||||
| Commander squid | 9 | 2 | 11 | 17 | 25 | 14 | ||||||||||||
| Eulachon | 9 | 9 | 11 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 18 | 20 | ||||||||||
| Northern lampfish | 27 | 26 | 30 | 26 | 10 | |||||||||||||
| Northern smoothtongue | 14 | 16 | 17 | 29 | 16 | |||||||||||||
| Pacific hake | 8 | 10 | 10 | 20 | 12 | 20 | 25 | |||||||||||
| Walleye Pollock (Mature) | 12 | 38 | 19 | 22 | 19 | 10 | 20 | 28 | 13 | |||||||||
| Demersal | ||||||||||||||||||
| Arrowtooth flounder | 5 | 17 | 17 | 18 | ||||||||||||||
| Pacific cod | 16 | 17 | 17 | |||||||||||||||
| Pacific halibut | 16 | 17 | 16 | |||||||||||||||
| Sablefish | 15 | 17 | 17 | |||||||||||||||
| Sandpaper skate | 17 | 17 | 18 | |||||||||||||||
| Mean monthly SST | 8.9 | 10.0 | 4.0 | 3.8 | 7.4 | 8.7 | 11.7 | 9.7 | 4.6 | 4.3 | 5.1 | 10.6 | 14.2 | 10.9 | 3.7 | 3.6 | 3.9 | 12.5 |
Numbers reflect the sample size (number of individual fish) in each collection. Young-of-the-year is abbreviated as YOY. Mean monthly sea surface temperatures (SST) (oC) from Wing et al. (2006) are included