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Center in St. Petersburg, Florida, facilitated our work by 

 furnishing king mackerel specimens and data. This time 

 series would not have been possible without the labor of 

 the crews of the NOAA ships Chapman and Oregon II. 



Age = 3047 + 1 3024 SL- 0241 SL^ 



/ 9 



f^ = 0.83 



95% Confidence Interval 

 Predicted Interval 



2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 

 Standard length (mm) 



Figure 3 



Relation between age and standard length (SL) with 95';'f con- 

 fidence limits for king mackerel. Data from DeVries el al. 

 ( 1990). 



and field biologists of the NMFS laboratories and state 

 agencies participating in SEAMAP cruises. Scott Nichols, 

 Director of the NMFS Mississippi Laboratories, gave us 

 encouragement, incentive and comments on an early draft 

 of the manuscript. We greatly appreciate the comments 

 and suggestions of Chris Legault, James H. Cowan, Bruce 

 Comyns, and one anonymous reviewer who improved the 

 manuscript. 



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