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the entire Oregon coast from the Columbia River 

 to Cape Blanco at least in spring (March-April). 

 Thus it seems likely that similar species com- 

 position, seasonality, and inshore-offshore as- 

 semblages of larval fishes may occur over a much 

 broader shelf-slope area in the northeast Pacific. 



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 



We thank the many people who helped with 

 collecting, sorting, identifying, enumerating, 

 measuring, and data reduction. R. Gregory Lough 

 and Peter Rothlisberg were responsible for col- 

 lecting most of the samples. Elbert H. Ahlstrom, 

 James Blackburn, Carl Bond, Jean Dunn, Joanne 

 Laroche, April McLean, H. Geoffrey Moser, Karl 

 Niggol, Sharon Roe, Elaine Sandknop, and 

 Kenneth Waldron have all helped at one time or 

 another with larval fish identifications. Wayne 

 Laroche provided names for our agonid larval 

 types. James Rybock did the preliminary analysis 

 of the vertical distribution data for a class project. 

 Michael Richardson gave much advice on data 

 analysis and offered many helpful comments. 

 Jane Huyer provided information on physical 

 oceanography off the Oregon coast. This research 

 was supported by NOAA (U.S. Department of 

 Commerce) Sea Grant Institutional Grant No. 

 04-6-158-44004. Ship operations support was 

 provided by the National Science Foundation. 



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