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catch), the latrid Latridopsis ciliaris (16%), and the 

 aplodactylid Aplodactylus arctidens (10%) repre- 

 sented most of the total catch. For the five most com- 

 monly caught species, the degree of association be- 

 tween mesh size and method of capture differed for 

 different species (G=81.395, % 2 05[16] =26.296, 

 P<0.001). For example, the coastal labrid Notolabrus 

 fucicola was mostly gilled in the 2.5" mesh; few of 



these fish were caught in the larger mesh sizes, and 

 few were caught by wedging and tangling (Table 4). 

 In contrast, the large, slow-moving latrid L. ciliaris 

 was mostly tangled in the 2.5" mesh, gilled and 

 tangled in approximately equal numbers in the 3.5" 

 mesh, and mostly gilled in the 4.5" mesh. Odax pullus 

 was mostly gilled in the 2.5" and 3.5" meshes and 

 few were caught in the 4.5" mesh. The bottom-dwell- 



