Food consumption by tropical and temperate fish populations: some generalizations

Food consumption and energy transformati

Food consumption and energy transformations by fish populations in two small lowland rivers in Poland

✍ T. Penczak; E. Kusto; D. Krzyżanowska; M. Moliński; E. Suszycka 📂 Article 📅 1984 🏛 Springer 🌐 English ⚖ 564 KB

The food consumption of all fish species was estimated at nine sites in two lowland rivers . The fish populations, whose diet consisted chiefly of invertebrates (88%), used on the average 9 .88 (7 .14-13 .3) kg of invertebrates for the production of 1 kg of fish flesh . This number of invertebrates