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Mackerel and Calanus

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WE all believe that most of our common food-fishes at some stage of life feed upon plankton, but those who have looked into sea-fisheries questions know that there is a great want of actual observations connecting the occurrence of some planktonic organism in quantity with the presence of a particular fish. Consequently the following record may be of interest to both marine biologists and fisheries experts.

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HERDMAN, W. Mackerel and Calanus. Nature 91, 504–505 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/091504a0

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