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thank Forrest Davis, John Gold, Jessica McCawley, 

 Linda Richardson, Jim Tolan, Melissa Woods, Candace 

 Aiken, and many others for help with sampling red snap- 

 per. We also thank Josh Maier and Brett Blackman for 

 otolith sectioning. We thank Steve Tomeny and his boat 

 captains and crew (Port Fourchon, LA), as well as all 

 boat captains and crews in Dauphin Island, Alabama, 

 and Port Aransas, Texas, for graciously allowing us to 

 sample fish from their charter fishing vessels. We also 

 thank Yvonne Allen for providing the map in Figure 1. 

 Finally we would like to thank Dave Nieland for time 

 spent fielding questions concerning statistical analysis 

 and for a constructive review of this manuscript. 



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