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Environment and Natural Resources for obtaining 

 otoliths and gonads from snowy gi-ouper in North 

 Carolina. In South Carolina, the personnel of the 

 MARMAP program of the S.C. Department of Natu- 

 ral Resources assisted with port sampling. Captains 

 D. Juel, S. Juel, J. Mun'ay, S. Shelley, and the late 

 J. D. Skipper III let us remove otoliths from their 

 catches of snowy grouper and brought in whole speci- 

 mens for the study of reproductive biology. We very 

 much regret the loss of Captain Skipper, his vessel, 

 and a crew member. C. Jackson and T. Prince of 

 the Southport Fish Market, and F. McGinn and R. 

 McGinn of the Little River Fish House, allowed us to 

 process specimens at their businesses. R. Dixon and 

 G. Huntsman provided gonad samples collected by 

 the National Marine Fisheries Service Beaufort Labo- 

 oratory. K. Grimball and O. Pashuk prepared the his- 

 tological sections. B. Zhao generated the parameter 

 estimates for the von Bertalanffy model. T. Azarov- 

 itz, T. Reisinger, and D. Machowski contributed to 

 the retrieval of data from the 1978 squid cnaise origi- 

 nally collected by E. Gutherz. Earlier drafts of the 

 manuscript were examined by P. Harris, J. McGov- 

 em, and three anonymous reviewei's. This project was 

 funded through the National Marine Fisheries Service 

 MARFIN grant NA37FF0046-01 and the MARMAP 

 contract 50WCNF006002. 



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