Albacore
are top carnivores and they opportunistically prey on schooling
stocks of sardine, anchovy, mackerel and squid. Other authors have
found that in the North-east Atlantic, albacore diet is mainly composed
of fish, mainly Trachurus trachurus (Ortiz de Zárate
1987) and, to a lesser extent, of crustaceans (Hassani et al 1997).
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