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We suggest that, in addition to the recruitment pro- 

 cess in Funka Bay, an important recruitment process 

 occasionally exists in the Tohoku area, and when the 

 year-class strength of the Japanese Pacific population 

 of pollock is strong, as in 2000 (Yabuki^), the Tohoku 

 area becomes important as a nursery ground for the 

 late hatching fish originating from Funka Bay. 



Acknowledgments 



We thank the crew of the RV Wakatako Marii who 

 endured long working hours to obtain the samples used 

 in this study. We also thank Yasunori Sakurai of the 

 Graduate School of Fisheries Sciences, Hokkaido Univer- 

 sity, Yoshioki Oozeki of the National Research Institute 

 of Fisheries Science, Fisheries Research Agency, and 

 Kazuya Nagasawa of the Tohoku National Fisheries 

 Research Institute, Fisheries Research Agency, for their 

 advice and helpful discussions. We thank the anonymous 

 reviewers who improved the draft of this article. This 

 research was funded by the VENFISH Program of the 

 Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. 



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