ACKNOWLEDGM ENTS 



The Office de la Recherche Scientifique et 

 Technique Outre-Mer, Pointe-Noire, Republic 

 of the Congo (Brazzaville), Inter-American 

 Tropical Tuna Commission, La Jolla, Calif., and 

 BCF Exploratory Fishing Base, Gloucester, 

 Mass., either provided or were responsible for 

 providing tuna stomachs, and the following 

 people assisted in identification of forage or- 

 ganisms: Warren Burgess, Department of Zo- 

 ology, University of Hawaii, Honolulu ; Bruce 

 B. Collette, BCF, Washington, D.C. ; Thomas E. 

 Bowman, Raymond B. Manning, and Clyde F. 

 E. Roper, Smithsonian Institution, Washing- 

 ton, D.C. ; Giles W. Mead, Museum of Compara- 

 tive Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, 

 Mass. ; P. Heeggard, Universitets Zoologiske 

 Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark; L. B. Hol- 

 thuis, Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, 

 Leiden, Holland ; D. I. Williamson, Marine Bio- 

 logical Station, University of Liverpool, Port 

 Erin, Isle of Man, England ; Maria Foyo, Don- 

 ald Moore, Anthony J. Provenzano, Philip B. 

 Robertson, and Won Tack Yang, Rosenstiel 

 School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, 

 University of Miami, Miami, Fla. 



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