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ogy Investigations at the SWFSC Santa Cruz/Tiburon 

 Laboratory who worked on this project for their dedicated 

 efforts — Cheryl Callahan, Joe Hightower, Brian Jarvis, 

 Anne McBride, Don Pearson, Cathy Preston, Dale Rob- 

 erts, Keith Sakuma, and David Woodbury. In addition, 

 we credit Geoff Moser and co-workers at the SWFSC La 

 Jolla Laboratory, especially Elaine Acuna, Dave Ambrose, 

 Sherrie Charter, and Bill Watson, for their most helpful 

 assistance in enumerating all the preflexion shortbelly 

 rockfish larvae that occurred in plankton samples taken 

 at CalCOFI Station 63.55 from 1952 to 1984. We are also 

 grateful for the assistance provided by Gary Stauffer of 

 the AFSC Sand Point Laboratory in securing shiptime 

 aboard the Soviet RV Novodrutsk for the second survey 

 of adult shortbelly rockfish. Furthermore, a number of 

 thoughtful comments and suggestions were received 

 from reviewers of this manuscript, particularly from Paul 

 Crone, Gareth Penn, and Erik Williams. Lastly, we would 

 like to express our gratitude and appreciation to Alec 

 MacCall for his continued encouragement and support 

 for this work. 



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