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Table 17. Summary of results from the prey-size preference experiment. <br />Numbers indicate squawfish weight (grams) consumed by an individual <br />largemouth bass during a seven-day period. <br />' bass size small medium large <br />squawfish <br />' size (mm TL) 50-65 75-90 100-120 50-65 75-90 100-120 50-65 75-90 100-120 <br />week # 1 15.4 1o.6 0.0 15.1 10.9 27.5 9.4 17.2 40.9 <br />2 17,5 0.0, 0,0 9,8 10.4 0.0 - - - <br />3 18.1 0,0 0.0 12.4 15.2 16.2 19.5 8.2 0.0 <br />4 12.7 19.5 0.0 16.9 2.5 6.4 10.4 19.7 53.2 <br />5 17.6 5.9 0.0 12.5 31.3 0.0 4.1 14.0 42.8 <br />Total 81.3 35.9 0.0 66.8 70.3 50,1 43.3 59.1 136.9 <br />percent of <br />total eaten 69.3 30.7 0.0 35.7 37.6 26.8 18.1 24.7 57.2 <br />Table 18. Summary of results from the prey-size preference experiment.. <br />Numbers indicate percent of total weight of squawfish eaten by an indiv- <br />idual largemouth bass during a seven-day period. Percents are derived <br />from data in Table 17. <br />bass size small - medium large <br />squawfish <br />size (mm TL) 50-65 75-90 100-120 50-65 75-90 100-120 50-65 75-90 100-120 <br />week # 1 59.3 40.7 0.0 28.2 20.4 51.5 13.9 25.5 6o.6 <br />2 100.0 0.0 0.0 48.6 51,4 0.0 - - - <br />3 100.0 0.0 0.0 28.4 34.7 36.9 70.4 29.6 o. o <br />4 39.5 60.5 0.0 65.5 9.8 24.7 12.5 23.7 63.9 <br />5 75.1 24.9 o. o 28.6 71.4 0.0 6.7 23.0 70.3 <br />Mean percent 74.8 25.2 0.0 39.9 37.5 22.6 25.9 25.5 48.7 <br />22