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#59 || Dr. Jereme Gaeta: Big Fish Don't Eat Big Fish (Most of the Time)
#59 || Dr. Jereme Gaeta: Big Fish Don't Eat Big Fish (Most of the Time)
Think giant walleyes, muskies, bass and pike spend their days chasing giant meals? Think again. In one of the largest predator-prey studies ever assembled, fisheries scientist Dr. Jereme Gaeta analyzed more than 9,000 fish stomachs and over 22,000 prey fish from lakes across North America. What he discovered stunned us. Even the biggest predators spend most of their lives feeding on prey far smaller than most anglers imagine. In fact, much of the forage consumed by trophy-size fish measures o...