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curred in the 1980s. However, it is important to keep in 

 mind that pollock are only one component of the Steller 

 sea lion diet and that all pollock sui-vey data are collected 

 during the summer. 



Acknowledgments 



We would like to thank Eric Brown, Lowell Fritz, Beth 

 Sinclair, Matt Wilson, Warren Wooster, and several anony- 

 mous reviewers for comments on earlier drafts of the man- 

 uscript. An earlier version of this manuscript appeared as 

 part of a Ph.D. dissertation (Shima, 1996) for the Univer- 

 sity of Washington, Seattle. This study was made possible 

 through the support of the Resource Ecology and Fisher- 

 ies Management Division of the Alaska Fisheries Science 

 Center, National Marine Fisheries Sei-vice and the Wash- 

 ington Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Bio- 

 logical Resources Division, U.S. Geological Sui"vey. 



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