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who assisted in aping larvae and Dave Witting and Mike 

 Fahay who provided valuable assistance in several other 

 phases of this study. Douglas Vaughan ran the Hotelling's 

 T- test and offered comments. Dean Ahronholz, David 

 Peters, Jonathan Hare, and three anonymous referees 

 provided valuable critical reviews of earlier versions of 

 the manuscript. Support for portions of this study was 

 received from the South Atlantic Bight Recruitment 

 Experiment (SABRE) program of the National Oceanic 

 and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Coastal Fish- 

 eries Ecosystem/Coastal Ocean Program and from NOAA's 

 Office of Sea Grant NA89AA-D-SSG057 (project no. R/F-42) 

 and NA36-RGO505 (project no. R/F-65) and the Institute of 

 Marine and Coastal Sciences (IMCS), Rutgers University. 



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