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alter the distribution of groundfish in the area 

 l)etween Nova Scotia and Long Island. 



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 



I thank Walter R. Welch for use of the Booth- 

 bay Harbor temperature data, Marvin D. Gross- 

 lein for access to the groundfish survey records, 

 and Roland L. Wigley and Fred E. Lux for crit- 

 ical reading of the manuscript. 



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