The diet of Pacific cod (Gadus macrocephalus) in the area of Pavlof Bay, Alaska, was studied in the early 1980s by Albers and Anderson (1985). They found that the dominant prey species were forage species like pandalid shrimp, capelin (Mallotus villosus), and walleye pollock (Theragra chalcogramma). The shrimp fishery in Pavlof Bay began in 1968 and closed in 1980 because of low shrimp abundance (Ruccio and Worton (1)). Survey data indicate that, during the period between 1972 and ...
<0.1 kg/km) from 1978 to 1982, while offshore and deepwater pandalid shrimp species maintained low population levels (>