Lampanyctus ritteri - comment for L. regalis applies to this 

 species. 



Blennioidei - this category includes members of northern 

 stichaeioid families and true blennioids (other than 

 Hypsoblennius spp.) in the southern part of the patcern. 



COMPUTER ENTRY AND EDITING 



Each taxon listed on the original identification sheets was 

 given a 3-digit code basad on the list of codes in Haight et al. 

 (1979) . Taxon codes and counts from these sheets were entered by 

 cruise and station, along with pertinent station and tow data, into 

 the VAX 11/780 computer at the University of California, San Diego, 

 Computing Center. After entries were completed for the entire 

 year, print-out listings of taxa and counts at each station were 

 compared with the original data sheets to eliminate keypunch 

 errors. Next, data in the file were cross-checked with data in an 

 existing file that contained: station and tow data; numbers of 

 eggs of sardine, anchovy, and saury; numbers of larvae of sardine, 

 anchovy, hake, jack mackerel, and Pacific mackerel; total number of 

 fish eggs; and total number of fish larvae. 



Discrepancies in ichthyoplankton data in these two files were 

 corrected by inspecting original records from the sorting 

 laboratory, the original ichthyoplankton identification sheets, and 

 the samples themselves. Station and tow data discrepancies between 

 the two files were corrected by reviewing ships' logs and deck tow 

 sheets, original records from the sorting laboratory, cruise 

 announcements, publications, header information on the 

 ichthyoplankton identification sheets, and station plots generated 

 for each cruise. All station and tow data were checked by 

 comparing these sources. 



A listing of each taxon by station (Table 4) was the primary 

 document for subsequent checks. Misidentif ications found in 

 geographic outlier checks and other misidentif ications and data 

 problems discovered in the course of examining archived samples 

 resulted in several iterations of Table 4. Finally, totals in 

 Table 4 were checked against annual summaries of incidence and 

 abundance (Tables 2 and 3) . Ecological analyses of the data were 

 conducted concurrently with editing procedures and provided 

 cross-checks that allowed correction of errors. 



SPECIES SUMMARY 



Larvae of northern anchovy {Engraulis mordax) represented 

 41.4% of all fish larvae taken on CalCOFI cruises during 1984 and 

 were 2.5 times more abundant than the light fish species, 

 Vinciguerria lucetia, the next ranking taxon with 16.5% of the 



