Comments: Feeds opportunistically; diet varies with location and seal's age, consists primarily of epibenthic invertebrates (crustaceans, molluscs, worms, etc.), schooling demersal fishes, and/or octopuses (Burns 1981, Reeves et al. 1992). Fishes tend to be most important in the Canadian High Arctic, whereas invertebrates are more important in the Bering and Chukchi seas.