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Proportion of juveniles, males, hermaphrodites, and females for Pacific thread- 

 fin from I A) 1962 to 1968 and (B) during the 1999 reward fishery program. 



Acknowledgments 



The authors acknowledge the contributions to this re- 

 search made by Ken Leber, Peter Craig, Reiji Masuda, 

 Robert Cantrell, Steve Arce, Scott Bloom, Tom Ogawa, Don 

 Dela Pena, Rich Hall, Karl Keller and other members of the 

 slock managenii'nl staffat The Oceanic Institute, and of the 

 culture support provided by Tony Ostrowski and the staff 

 of The Oceanic Institute finfish program. Jim Parrish, Reiji 

 Masuda, Ken Leber, two anonymous reviewers and editors 

 provided valuable .suggestions for the manuscript. This 

 research was supported under NOAA gi-ant NA7(jFY0()59. 



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