DITTY: ICHTHYOPLANKTON IN NERITIC WATERS 



among the ichthyoplankton in neritic waters of the 

 Gulf of Mexico. 



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 



This study represents a portion of an ongoing 

 multiyear synoptic environmental assessment of the 

 Louisiana Offshore Oil Port (LOOP, Inc.) and related 

 facilities conducted by the Louisiana Department of 

 Wildlife and Fisheries. I would like to thank Robert 

 Ganczak and R. Harry Blanchet for their support 

 and advice; Carlos Garces for statistical guidance; 

 Jill Onega for typing the various drafts of the manu- 

 script; Ron Gouguet for computer programming 

 expertise, collection of hydrographic data, and 

 generating the hydrographic profile plots; and to 

 acknowledge Frank M. Truesdale, R. Harry Blan- 

 chet, and the other reviewers for their valuable com- 

 ments and suggestions for manuscript improve- 

 ment. Thanks to the captain and crew of the LOOP 

 Vigilance, to LOOP Inc., and to the Louisiana 

 Department of Wildlife and Fisheries for additional 

 support. Thanks also to the Southeast Area Monitor- 

 ing and Assessment Program (SEAMAP) for pro- 

 viding data on the bothids, sciaenids, and scombrids 

 collected off Louisiana during 1982 and to William 

 J. Richards and Tom Potthoff for identifying the 

 SEAMAP scombrids. 



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