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  Stomach Content Analysis and Concentrations of Chemical Pollutants in the Clymene Dolphin (Stenella Clymene, Gray 1846) from the Coastal Waters of Ghana
  Author(s): Rhoda Lims Sakyi, Ofori-Danson PK, Sam Addo and Nyarko ERhoda Lims Sakyi, Ofori-Danson PK, Sam Addo and Nyarko E
  
  Stomach content analysis constitutes an important component of fisheries management, providing insight into fish feeding patterns and quantitative assessment of food habits. Thus, a study aimed at obtaining dietary information from stomach contents analysis of the most common by-caught dolphin species, Stenella clymene, beached from the coastal waters of Ghana, along the Gulf of Guinea was undertaken. The stomachs of 39 by-caught clymene dolphins landed at three fisheries landing beaches along the Ghanaian coast, were analyzed. A further study correlating the chemical contaminant load in tissues of Clymene dolphins to that of their preferred prey was undertaken. The stomach contents were generally composed of digested items. Fish, cephalopods and crustaceans were identified and represented a diversity of 12 species. On taxa level, fish was the most frequent (69%) and numerica.. View More»
  DOI: 10.35248/2150-3508.19.10.261

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