A SIMPLIFIED DEPICTION OF THE BERING SEA FOOD WEB:

(from McConnaughey and McRoy 1976).

 

(1) ice algae
(2) phytoplankton
(3) copepods
(4) mysids and euphausids
(5) medusae
(6) hyperid amphipods
(7) sea birds
(8,9) pelagic fishes
(10) walrus
(11) seals
(12) basket stars
(13) ascideans
(14) shrimps
(15) filter-feeding bivalves
(16) sand dollars
(17) sea stars
(18) crabs
(19) bottom feeding fishes
(20) polychaetes
(21) predatory gastropods
(22) deposit feeding bivalves