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for laboratory analyses that made this study possible. 

 We greatly appreciate the efforts of commercial 

 gillnet and longline fishermen in the Cape Canaveral 

 region who allowed us to sample sharks at sea or 

 dockside, especially A. Christopher, who frequently 

 allowed us onboard his vessel to collect sharks. We 

 also thank the fisheries crew and port samplers (in 

 particular, M. Ridler) of the FDEP Indian River Field 

 Laboratory for assistance in collecting and process- 

 ing samples and J. Guenthner for shipping and pro- 

 cessing samples. Cape Canaveral Scientific, Inc. also 

 provided sharks for this study. Lastly, we thank L. 

 French, J. Leiby, G. Parsons, K. Peters, J. Quinn, T. 

 Sminkey, and D. Tremain who offered helpful sug- 

 gestions for improving the manuscript. 



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