27.04.2007

Dr. Denis Chabot of the Maurice Lamontagne Institut (DFO) has revealed the stomach contents of the 3-metre Greenland shark necropsied on June 2, 2006:

Overall weight of the stomach: 33.6 kg (75 lbs)
Seal flesh (Gray seal and Harbour seal): 6 907.17 g.
One Greenland halibut: 36 cm / 620.69 g.
Three skates: 540.63 g.
Toad and spider crabs: 38.60 g.
Disgested squid: 0.61 g.
Squid eyes: 0.41 g.
Fish otolyths (from digested fish): 0.44 g.
Digested fish fragments: 10.9 g.
Gastropods (whelk and others) : 3.13 g.
Nematode worms: 0.02 g.
Unidentifiable digested material: 18 045.6 g.
Fishing net: 2.69 g.
Rope: 6.74 g.
Piece of wood: 0.05 g.

SOURCE: DFO / Maurice Lamontagne Institut

The necropsy conducted on this shark caught accidentally in Sainte-Rose-du-Nord (Saguenay Fjord) revealed clues about the Greenland shark's prey, including large seals. Photo courtesy Musée du fjord (All Rights Reserved)

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