A. M. Orlova and I. N. Moukhametovb
a Russian Federal Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO),
Verkhnyaya Krasnosel’skaya 17, Moscow, 107140 Russia
e-mail: orlov@vniro.ru
b Sakhalin Research Institute of Fishery and Oceanography (SakhNIRO),
ul. Komsomol’skaya 196, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, 693023 Russia
Received March 21, 2007
Abstract—Food composition of Pacific halibut Hippoglossus stenolepis has been considered in three areas of
the northwestern Pacific: in the western part of the Bering Sea, in Pacific waters off the northern Kuril Islands
and southeastern Kamchatka, and waters off the southern Kuril Islands. The main food items in all studied
regions were shrimp, cephalopods, and fish. It has been noted that fish offal plays a considerable role in the feed-
ing of H. stenolepis in the western part of the Bering Sea. Changes in food composition in relation to fish
growth, depth of catch, and sex of individuals have been analyzed; and differences in the composition of food
items consumed by H. stenolepis in different parts of the studied areas have been considered.
DOI: 10.1134/S003294520709007X
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