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tions reflect trends in spawning stock size and provide 

 useful variables for calibrating the king mackerel VPA. 



Acknowledgments 



The authors wish to thank Doug DeVries at the NMFS 

 Panama City Laboratory for giving us his larval king 



mackerel age and length data. Joe Powers and Chris 

 Legault of the NMFS Miami Laboratory supplied king 

 mackerel VPAs for the various iterations of this man- 

 uscript. Rosanne Brasher supplied indispensable assis- 

 tance with the SEAMAP database. Scientists at the Polish 

 Sorting and Identification Center in Szczecin, Poland, 

 sorted and identified larvae from collections. Kim Wil- 

 liams, Collections Manager of the SEAMAP Archiving 



