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duction has provided a clearer picture of the processes 

 influencing striped bass recruitment than could have 

 been obtained solely from analysis of interannual 

 differences in larval vital rates and abundances. 



Acknowledgments 



Funding for this research was provided by the Tide- 

 water Administration, Maryland Department of 

 Natural Resources (MDDNR). This paper constituted 

 part of a Ph.D. dissertation by the senior author while 

 at the University of Maryland. The senior author 

 gratefully acknowledges research assistantship sup- 

 port from MDDNR, a fellowship from the Electric 

 Power Research Institute, and travel support from 

 the University of Maryland System's Chesapeake 

 Biological Laboratory, the Optimist Club of Solomons, 

 and the Chesapeake Bay Yacht Club Association. 

 Field and laboratory assistance was provided by 

 Linton Beaven, Cynthia Cooksey, James Cowan, 

 Edward Chesney, Suzanne Dorsey, Kenneth Langley, 

 Lori Linley, Jamie Lovdal, David Lytle, James 

 MacGregor, Doreen Monteleone, Brian Moser, Timo- 

 thy Newberger, Robert Nyman, John Olney, David 

 Secor, Ana Vasquez, Colleen Zastrow, and the Cap- 

 tain and crew of RV Orion. Ichthyoplankton surveys 

 in the Upper Bay in 1989 were conducted for us by 

 MDDNR personnel. Letty Fernandez assisted with 

 word processing, and Colleen Zastrow and Fran 

 Younger assisted with illustrations. Comments by 

 James A. Rice and an anonymous reviewer signifi- 

 cantly improved the manuscript. 



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