Editing Blue cod (section)

=== Predators ===
''[[Homo sapiens]]'' (humans) fish 2000 to 2500 tons of ''P. colias'' annually.<ref name="MPI2014" >{{cite web |url= http://fs.fish.govt.nz/Doc/23548/08_BCO%202014%20FINAL.pdf.ashx
 |title=Fisheries Assessment Plenary May 2014: Stock Assessments and Stock Status. Blue Cod (BCO)|author= Ministry for Primary Industries |date=2014 |access-date=2018-04-15}}</ref> Natural predators include: 
*[[Great white shark]]<ref name="NHNZ" />
*[[Benthic zone|Benthic]] feeders, such as:
**[[Yellow-eyed penguin]]s<ref name="Chilvers2014">{{cite journal | last1=Chilvers| first1=B.L. | last2=Dobbins| first2=M.L. | last3=Edmonds| first3=H.K.| year=2014| title= Diving behaviour of yellow-eyed penguins, Port Pegasus/Pikihatiti, Stewart Island/Rakiura, New Zealand. | journal=New Zealand Journal of Zoology |volume=41 |issue=3 |pages=161–170| doi=10.1080/03014223.2014.908931 | s2cid=87018205 }}</ref><ref name="Moore">{{cite journal | last1=Moore| first1=P.J. | last2=Wakelin| first2=M.D. | year=1997| title=Diet of the yellow-eyed penguin ''Megadyptes antipodes'', South Island, New Zealand, 1991-1993. | journal=Marine Ornithology |volume=25 |pages=17–29| doi=10.5038/2074-1235.25.1.377 }}</ref><ref name="Van">{{cite journal|last1=Van Heezik|first1=Y.|author-link=Yolanda van Heezik|year=1990|title=Diets of yellow-eyed, Fiordland crested, and little blue penguins breeding sympatrically on Codfish Island, New Zealand.|journal=New Zealand Journal of Zoology|volume=17|issue=4|pages=543–548|doi=10.1080/03014223.1990.10422952|doi-access=free}}</ref>
**[[Dolphins]]<ref name="Federal">{{cite journal | last1=Federal Register| year=2015| title=Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Notice of 12-Month Finding on a Petition To List Bottlenose Dolphins in Fiordland, New Zealand as Threatened or Endangered Under the Endangered Species Act. | journal=Federal Government of United States |url=https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2015/06/19/2015-15087/endangered-and-threatened-wildlife-and-plants-notice-of-12-month-finding-on-a-petition-to-list}}</ref> 
*[[Sea birds]], such as [[mollymawk]]s<ref name="Govier">{{cite thesis |last1=Govier |first1=D. |year=2001 |title=Growth and movement of Blue Cod (''Parapercis colias'') in Paterson Inlet, Stewart Island, New Zealand |type=M.Sc. thesis |publisher=University of Otago |hdl=10523/2967 |url=http://hdl.handle.net/10523/2967}}</ref>

As many marine predators are [[generalist and specialist species|generalists]]<ref name="Murdoch" /> there are many other potential predators not listed. ''P. colias'' are known to predate upon juveniles of their own species.<ref name="Young" />