The abyssal macrourid fishes off Oregon are generalized feeders, as theory predicts for large searchers in an unproductive environment. Analysis of stomach contents revealed that fish feed on a wide variety of foods, but the proportions of different taxa of food vary among and within species, indicating some food selectivity. Broad feeding overlaps occurred between large Coryphaenoides armatus and C. filifer, which fed mainly on squid and fish, and between small C. armatus and C. leptolepis, which fed largely on epifaunal crustaceans. Pelagic crustaceans were numerous in the stomachs of large C. leptolepis. Overlap among the food of these macrourids was more than the overlap among shallow-water, demersal fishes.Most food consisted of epifauna or pelagic animals. It is not known if the squid, shrimp, and fish prey, known to inhabit mesopelagic depths, have vertical distributions extending to 2800 m where they were consumed, or whether macrourids forage far above the bottom. The fact that some squid beaks were from squids larger than the fish which ate them suggests that macrourids are sometimes scavengers and feed on sinking carcasses. The importance of pelagic animals in the diet of large macrourids implies a direct trophic link between abyssobenthic and pelagic animals that may be important in the transport of energy and elements into the deep ocean.