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Xiangshan Bay is a semi⁃closed bay in the central coast of Zhejiang Province, China. It is also a centralized distribution area of various fishery resources, and many economic fish species breeding there every year. However, due to long⁃term overfishing, ocean development and environmental pollution, deterioration of ecological environment was found in this sea area, which also caused the increasingly recession of local fishery resources. In recent years, after fishery resources conservation, fishery resources in this water have been restored. It also provides a good habitat for reef⁃loving species such as the black sea bream Acanthopagrus schlegelii. A. schlegelii is an important fish species targeted by recreational and commercial fisheries in Xiangshan Bay. Maintaining population stability of this species is economically and ecologically important for the embayment. Knowledge of the feeding ecology is of great value for conservation strategies, as it is thoroughly linked to subjects such as resource partitioning, habitat preferences, prey selection, predation, competition and energy transfer within and between ecosystems. However, relatively little work has been done on this aspect in A. schlegelii. In this study, 21 individuals of A. schlegelii were collected in Xiangshan Bay, and diet composition and feeding habits were