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cially grateful to the observers who collected the data used 

 in this study and thank the masters, crew members, and 

 owners of longliners for their cooperation with the observer 

 programs. Pierre Kleiber, Ian Jonsen, Julia Baum, Boris 

 Worm and an anonymous referee provided many useful 

 comments on the manuscript. 



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