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Sand lance
A sand lance or sandlance is a fish belonging to the family Ammodytidae. Several species of sand lance are commonly known as "sand eels" or "sandeels", though they are not related to true eels.
Some principal foods include sand lance (Ammodytes hexapterus), Pacific herring (Clupea haringus), capelin (Mallotus villosus), and the invertebrates Euphausia pacifica and Thysanoessa spinifera [16,17,23].
Here they dive with partly folded wings, "flying" rapidly underwater, with tail and feet spread to aid steering, as they pursue small schooling fish such as herring, sand lance, capelin, sticklebacks, and smelt, ...
Roseate Terns feed in salt water on small fish, most frequently sand lance but also white hake, juvenile herring, mackerel, gadids, cod, pollock, and haddock.
Humpback whales eat krill, mackerel, sand lance, capelin, herring, pollock, smelt, cod, sardines, salmon, and anchovies. These whales are lunge-feeders but use several different techniques to concentrate their food before lunging.
The Common Murre mainly eats small schooling forage fish 200 mm long or less, such as polar cod, capelin, sand lances, sprats, sandeels, Atlantic cod and Atlantic herring.
Easy to Please: Halibut feed on almost any animal they can fit in their mouths: animals found in their stomachs include sand lance, octopus, crab, salmon, hermit crabs, lamprey, sculpin, cod, pollack and flounder.
Sand eels or sand lances are the preferred prey in many areas. Like other seal species, gray seals also consume seabirds occasionally. Gray seals typically dive to about 30-70 m while feeding.
Atlantic puffins eat several types of fish including cod, sand lances, whiting, and haddock. Zooplanktons (euphausiids, mysids, and copepods) are also part of a puffin's diet.
Size
Atlantic puffins are typically about 12 inches (30 cm) tall.
SUBORDER TRACHINOIDEI
Includes swallowers, gapers, sandfishes, sand lances, weeverfishes, stargazers, sand divers, sand burrowers, duckbills, sandperches
SUBORDER PHOLIDICHTHYOIDEI
convict-blennies ...
feeding together next to each other herding the sand lance around. Several
full breeches close. One whale had some fishing gear entangled.
Numbers are conservative
Wilson's Storm Petrels 30
Cory's Shearwater 150
Greater Shearwater 100 ...
Baits: metal squids, spoons, plugs, jigs, rigged eels, plastic eels and fish, shrimp and small fish, alewives, flounder, sea herring, menhaden, sand lance, silver hake, smelt, silversides, as well as lobsters, crabs, soft clams, small mussels, ...
Puffins are expert divers. They use their wings to propel themselves underwater. They can dive up to hundreds of feet to catch fish. Preferred fish are capelin and sand lance.
 See also: Herring, Cod, Whale, Salmon, Diver
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