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Table 6 



Eigenvalues generated from the PCA of the species means in the southern study site, using the dominant species only (Table 5). 

 PC loadings of environmental means, and PC scores of the dominant species are also shown. The representations below are of the 

 unrotated principle components. PC loadings greater than 0.50 are in bold typeface. 



set of information that should allow a more meaningful 

 interpretation of the results of the (more typical) trawl 

 surveys for fishes. 



Species accounts 



False jacopever have been positively correlated with rocky 

 areas from a previous study of the region (Gibbons et al., 

 2000). Members of the genus Sehastes are also known as 

 rockfish and have been reported as common over deep 



rocky reefs from video-surveys (Richards, 1986; Murie et al., 

 1994). They seem to prefer structured and high-relief reefs, 

 and a partitioning of the habitat has been observed among 

 congeners (Richards, 1986). Rockfish have been reported as 

 scarce over soft sediments (Stein et al., 1992). Our results 

 are consistent with those from previous studies. 



Jacopever was the other scorpionid fish observed in our 

 study. It was far less common than false jacopever and 

 appeared to have a markedly different association with 

 environmental features. Admittedly the sample size for 



