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Vol. 82, No. 2 



April 1984 



ROPES, JOHN W., STEVEN A. MURAWSKI, and FREDRIC M. SERCHUK. 

 Size, age, sexual maturity, and sex ratio in ocean quahogs, Arctica islandica Linne, 

 off Long Island, New York 253 



BRODEUR, RICHARD D., and WILLIAM G. PEARCY. Food habits and dietary 

 overlap of some shelf rockfishes (genus Sebastes) from the northeastern Pacific 

 Ocean 269 



COLVOCORESSES, J. A., and J. A. MUSICK. Species associations and community 

 composition of Middle Atlantic Bight continental shelf demersal fishes 295 



HAYNES, EVAN B. Early zoeal stages of Placetron wosnessenskii and Rhinolith- 

 odes wosnessenskii (Decapoda, Anomura, Lithodidae) and review of lithodid larvae 

 of the northern North Pacific Ocean 315 



ZIMMERMAN, ROGER J., THOMAS J. MINELLO, and GILBERT ZAMORA, Jr. 

 Selection of vegetated habitat by brown shrimp, Penaeus aztecus, in a Galveston 

 Bay salt marsh 325 



STANDARD, GARY W, and MARK E. CHITTENDEN, Jr. Reproduction, move- 

 ments, and population dynamics of the banded drum, Larirnus fasciatus, in the 

 Gulf of Mexico 337 



TETTEY, ERNEST, CHRISTOPHER PARDY, WADE GRIFFIN, and A. NELSON 

 SWARTZ. Implications of investing under different economic conditions on the 

 profitability of Gulf of Mexico shrimp vessels operating out of Texas 365 



BUCK, JOHN D. Quantitative and qualitative bacteriology of elasmobranch fish 

 from the Gulf of Mexico 375 



BOTTON, MARK L., and HAROLD H. HASKIN. Distribution and feeding of the 

 horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus, on the continental shelf off New Jersey .... 383 



PEARCY, W, T NISHIYAMA, T. FUJII, and K. MASUDA. Diel variations in the 

 feeding habits of Pacific salmon caught in gill nets during a 24-hour period in the 

 Gulf of Alaska 391 



RUGGERONE, GREGORY T, and DONALD E. ROGERS. Arctic char predation 

 on sockeye salmon smolts at Little Togiak River, Alaska 401 



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MAULE, ALEC G., and HOWARD F. HORTON. Feeding ecology of walleye, 

 Stizostedion vitreum vitreum, in the mid-Columbia River, with emphasis on the 

 interactions between walleye and juvenile anadromous fishes 411 



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