Detritus-Based Food Webs: Exploitation by Juvenile Chum Salmon ( Oncorhynchus keta )

Abstract
Harpacticoid copepods are the principal food of chum salmon during the first critical weeks of estuarine life. Heterotrophic food sources are preferentially ingested by harpacticoids. A commercially valuable fisheries resource, usually considered to be planktivorous, is related to a detritus-based, benthically derived food web.

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