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both tagging experiments. We also sincerely thank 

 Shuichi Kitada and an anonymous referee for their 

 constructive comments. The work was funded by the 

 Australian Fisheries Management Authority and 

 Fisheries Research and Development Corporation. 

 This is SharkFAG document SS/97/D8. 



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