project. Izadore Barrett, Director of the Southwest Fisheries 

 Center and Reuben Lasker, Chief, Coastal Fisheries Resources 

 Division, SWFC, provided the support critical to the completion 

 of the project. James Thrailkill planned CalCOFI surveys and 

 supervised cruises, data handling, and plankton sorting from 1949 

 to 1986 and is largely responsible for the high quality of these 

 operations. Without the vision and direction of Elbert Ahlstrom 

 and Elton Sette and the dedicated efforts of the many people who 

 collected, processed, and analyzed the samples, this data base 

 would not exist. 



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