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Acknowledgments 



We thank Rob Leslie (Marine and Coastal Management 

 Centre, South Africa) for providing us with the South Afri- 

 can survey data, and Jon HelgeVolstad ( Versar, Inc., USA) 

 and two anonymous referees for their constructive com- 

 ments and suggestions. 



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