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ary waters, both vertical and horizontal, is 

 needed to understand how juvenile squid react 

 to the physical environment. This study has 

 shown that light-traps are useful devices for 

 catching juvenile squid, providing a basis for 

 a more intensive study of the early life-history 

 of squid. 



Acknowledgments 



This project was funded by a FIRDC grant to 

 P.J.D. and a Merit Research Grant to N.A.M. 

 We thank the crew of the RV Lady Basten and 

 volunteers who assisted with fleldwork. Iden- 

 tification of squid was assisted by C. C. Lu. We 

 thank Julia Yeatman for access to electro- 

 phoretic data and discussions about species 

 identification. This manuscript was greatly im- 

 proved by the comments of J. H. Choat, A. 

 Lewis, M. M c Cormick, the Coral Reef Discus- 

 sion Group, and two anonymous reviewers. 

 This research was conducted while N.A.M. was 

 on a Commonwealth Scholarship. 



