Náttúrufræðingurinn - 1974, Qupperneq 27

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is stressed by the fact, that the mediumsized food items are often positively
selected by tliis genus, besides that the gadoids more often take rnore food
species than do the otlier species. Only occasonally redfish suffers from inter-
specific competition, capelin, on the other hand, quite often.
In general, the crustaceans are the most important food of the species in-
vestigated. Non-crustaceans represent 9 groups of food species, most of which
however have no significance.