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should be initially implemented. At the time of writ- 

 ing this paper, several such gear-based discard reduc- 

 tion programs are currently underway in the region. 



Acknowledgments 



This study was funded by Surdna, National Fish and 

 Wildlife, Orchard, and Norcross Foundations. The 

 observer program that provided all data was the 

 National Marine Fisheries Service's Northeast Sea 

 Sampling Program (contract nos.: 50-EANF-8-00089 

 and 50-EANF-2-00038). I thank Connie Delano- 

 Gagnon for assistance with data handling, Steve 

 Drew, and members of the Sea Sampling Program 

 for helpful discussions, and the many observers in- 

 volved in collecting the data. I also thank Joan 

 Palmer and Daniel Sheehan for providing certain 

 data used, Stacey Grove for producing the map, and 

 Steve Drew, Steve Murawski, Ron Larsen, and three 

 anonymous referees for reviewing the manuscript. 



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