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Diet overlap between sticklebacks, herring and sprat in the Baltic Sea

Published: 16 January 2017

A recent study with SLU Aqua affiliation on the diet overlap between sticklebacks, herring and sprat in the Kalmar Sound area (Baltic Sea) show considerable overlap in diet between the three species.

The results hence suggest that sticklebacks, a previously neglected species that has increased enormously in abundance during the past decades, might be potential competitors with other planktivorous fish species in the Baltic Sea.

Article:

Seasonal dynamics in the diet of pelagic fish species in the southwestBaltic Proper,ICES Journal of Marine Science