Preying on commercial fisheries and accumulating paralytic shellfish toxins: a dietary analysis of invasive dosidicus gigas (cephalopoda ommastrephidae) stranded in pacific Canada

In fall of 2009, several mass strandings of Humboldt squid (Dosidicus gigas) occurred on Vancouver Island (49 degrees 7' 60N 125 degrees 54'0W). Morphological dissections coupled with DNA barcoding of stomach contents revealed Sardinops sagax (Pacific sardine) and Clupea pallasii (Pacific...

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Main Authors: Braid, H.E., Deeds, J., DeGrasse, S.L., Wilson, J.J., Osborne, J., Hanner, R.H.
Format: Article
Published: 2012
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