Re:Hooked on Tuna
by lexicality on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @01:53PM
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I'm not a marine biologist but my understanding is that oceanic food chains are very complex and it's not just orca -> tuna -> sardine -> plankton. Most fish larger than a sardine eat only smaller fish and there's a huge web of various sizes of creature all of which behave in predatory behaviour. Certainly most/all fish large enough to be considered a meal to humans are going to be predators.
I have no idea about biomass ratios, but I'm pretty sure there are more species of fish that eat other fish than not.
Re:Hooked on Tuna
by cubefox on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @03:09PM
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Fish mainly eat copepods (a type of zooplankton), which are tiny crustaceans (1-2 mm) carried around by the sea current like algae. Not other fish. Tuna do mainly eat other fish.
I have no idea about biomass ratios, but I'm pretty sure there are more species of fish that eat other fish than not.