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. 2017 Feb 23;7(6):1984–1995. doi: 10.1002/ece3.2790

Table 1.

For pellets, feces, and regurgitated fish, the total number of analyzed samples is displayed followed by the number of samples containing any hard parts and the fish individuals which were morphologically identifiable to order level or lower. Finally, the number of samples testing positive for fish DNA is noted per sample type. Note that for regurgitated fish samples, identifications were also made based on soft remains such as tissue

Pellets Feces Fish samples
Sample number 588 192 233
Morphological
Samples containing hard parts 455 31 38 (33 whole fish + 5 vertebrae)
Identifiable fish individuals 2,319 9 72 (33 whole fish + 39 IDs from tissue)
Molecular
Positive for fish DNA 512 149 196 (excluding whole fish)