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meters during the day. If spawning was limited to 

 waters near the island chain, a gradient in size with 

 distance from shore would be expected. Presumably 

 smaller animals would be caught nearshore and 

 larger animals farther offshore. No correlation was 

 found between size and distance from shore. 



Drifter data confirm the picture of circulation near 

 the Hawaiian Archipelago that flows are complex and 

 highly variable throughout the islands. Although 

 speeds of four drifters were averaged to estimate a 

 general flow speed in the region, determining where 

 particular paralarvae originated could best be deter- 



