with the historical MARMAP (Maritime Resources 

 Monitoring, Assessment and Prediction) data of lar- 

 val cod and haddock distributions in the Georges 



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Bank area (Smith et al. 1979). We also present an ap- 

 parent relationship between years of low warm core 

 ring activity and strong year classes in the fishery. 



Fh.vrk 1 . - Distribution of warm core rinps off the I'.S. northeast foiist durin};; the weei< of 1 1 May 1977. 

 The chart was pnxluced by the U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office from infrared satellite images. 



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