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a size-structured stock assessment model to evaluate the 

 status of sea urchin stock and to evaluate alternative man- 

 agement strategies for the Maine sea urchin fishery (Chen 

 and Hunter, 2003). 



Acknowledgments 



We would like to thank the Maine Department of Marine 

 Resources, the Northeast Consortium, and the Maine Sea 

 Urchin Zone Council for supporting this study. Construc- 

 tive and detailed comments from two anonymous reviewers 

 and the scientific editor greatly improved an early version 

 of the manuscript, for which we are grateful. 



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