摘要：In this paper the recruitment characteristics of salema juveniles Sarpa salpa (Linnaeus, 1758) from the Donji Molunat Bay are described. Samples were collected monthly, from March to July in 2009 with a costal demersal net. During the experimental period, 319 juveniles were analyzed. The following parameters were studied; length-weight relationship, frequency of pray, percentage of pray and percentage of empty stomachs. The recorded values of total length in analyzed juveniles ranged from 2,2 to 6,0 cm, and growth expressed positive alometry. Salema juveniles (total length from 3,1 do 6,0 cm) fed on plant material during March and June. During May (total length from 2,0 to 3,0 cm), juveniles fed on zooplankton. Dominated zooplanktonic food were copepods, shares in the total amount of prey were: Calanoida (87,24%), Cyclopoida (5,13%), Harpaticoida (3,33%), Poecilostomatoida (1,52%). The other groups of prey shared less then 1%: decapods larvae, ostracods, cladocerans, juvenile gammarids and bivalve larvae. The most frequent copepods found in stomachs of fish were calonoids (100%), cyclopoids (46,67%), and poecilostomatoids (16,33%). The frequency of other groups of prey was less then 10%. Zooplanktonic diet changed with the plant material when the juveniles reached a body length from 2,9 to 3,2 cm. Empty stomachs were not found.
