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with larval histological condition, feeding, growth, prey 

 availability, and independently determined mortality 



Acknowledgments 



We thank Debbie Blood, Ric Brodeur, Jay Clark, 

 Nazila Merati, and Matt Wilson for the spawning and 

 care of the pollock eggs aboard ship and for bringing 

 them back to Seattle. We appreciate the assistance 

 of Annette Brown and Stella Spring during the rear- 

 ing phase of this study and of Frank Morado and 

 Linda Cherepow with the histological preparations. 

 We also thank Kevin Bailey for contributing the labo- 

 ratory shrinkage data for ethanol and formalin. 

 Kevin Bailey, Art Kendall, Debbie Siefert, and Gary 

 Stauffer commented on early drafts of the manu- 

 script, and anonymous reviewers offered improve- 

 ments. The University of Washington, Friday Har- 

 bor Laboratory, furnished aquarium space in 1991. 



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