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rougheye rockfish. Longline gear and bottom trawls 

 with large rollers can sample rugged habitat, and 

 studies are currently underway to determine the ef- 

 ficiency of these gears for sampling shortraker and 

 rougheye rockfish. 



Acknowledgments 



We thank the crews of the submersible Delta and 

 the support vessel Cavalier for completing safe and 

 successful dives. We also thank John Karinen for his 

 assistance aboard the Cavalier, and Scott Johnson 

 and Jon Heifetz for their advice and assistance in 

 writing this paper. 



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