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Acknowledgments 



The authors thank L. Buckley, G. Theilacker, D. 

 Busch, A. Kendall Jr., and K. Bailey for their helpful 

 comments on earlier versions of the manuscript and 

 three anonymous reviewers for their critical reviews. 

 S. Picquelle provided assistance in the statistical 

 treatment of the data. This study was conducted as 

 part of the Fisheries Oceanography Coordinated In- 

 vestigations (NMFS, Seattle) and the GLOBEC Cod 

 Recruitment Studies (NMFS, Narragansett) and rep- 

 resents FOCI contribution 0195 and GLOBEC con- 

 tribution 0194. 



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