A study on natural feeding of Javelin grunter (Pomadasys kaakan) in Hormuzgan province, Persian Gulf waters

Food and feeding habits of the Javelin grunter (Pomadasys kaakan) were studied from a total of 477 Javelin grunter collected in Hormuzgan waters between September 2002 and December 2003.Capacity vacancy of stomach (CV) calculated 75.69 in total spacemen’s. Food priority (FP) were for crab, shrimp, other crustacean, fish, sea cucumber, cuttlefish and octopus 39.8,7.07, 27.4, 18.58, 4.4, 1.77 and 0.88 respectively.Result showed that this fish was underfeeding. Main food for Javelin grunter was crustacean specially crab. Subsidiary foods were fish and shrimp and random foods were Octopus, sea Cucumber and Cuttlefish