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Interpretation :Grey-eel catfish, , are euryhaline fish and native throughout South East Asia, but there is limited information regarding their feeding habits.In this study, the stomach contents from 234 samples of were analysed from the coastal waters of Port Dickson, Peninsular Malaysia. Sampling was carried over a period of twelve months (January to December, 2012).The study revealed that 61.54% of the stomachs contained food at various degrees of fullness, while the remaining (38.46%) were empty. According to index of preponderance (IP), the stomach contents in were composed of six major groups viz; fish and fish parts (38.00%), crustaceans (26.69%), molluscs (25.58%), sand and mud (6.68%), debris and detritus (2.99%) and unidentified items (0.06).The diet composition revealed a wide range of prey items of animal origin indicating that the fish is carnivorous. The findings of the present study would be very useful for the development of aquaculture of the fish.
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