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length. The biomass and yield of Pacific saury need 

 to be reestimated based on faster growth rates 

 presented here. 



ACKNOWLEDGMENT 



We thank A. Nishimura of Hokkaido Salmon 

 Hatchery; J. Yamada of Hokkaido University; R. 

 Lasker, S. Tsuji, and N. C. H. Lo of Southwest 

 Fisheries Center of National Marine Fisheries Ser- 

 vice (NMFS), NOAA; and S. Kosaka and T. Wata- 

 nabe of the Tohoku Regional Fisheries Research 

 Laboratory for valuable suggestions and reading the 

 manuscript. We also thank A. W. Kendell Jr. of the 

 Northwest and Alaska Fisheries Center, NMFS, 

 NOAA, for providing us with some specimens from 

 the eastern Pacific, and D. Abramenkoff of the 

 Southwest Fisheries Center for help in reading Rus- 

 sian papers. Y. Watanabe would like to thank the 

 Science and Technology Agency of Japan for fund- 

 ing his stay at the Southwest Fisheries Center. 



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