Table 4 - This table gives numbers of fish larvae for each taxon, 

 listed by station and calendar month in which the tow 

 was taken. Counts are adjusted for percent of sample 

 sorted and standard haul factor. Average values are 

 given for stations occupied more than once during a 

 month. Multiple occupancies occurred when a station 

 was occupied more than once in a calendar month; in 

 some cases multiple occupancies resulted from separate 

 cruises. See Table 1 for station and tow data and 

 Table 6 for listing of stations with more than one 

 occupancy during a month. In Table 4, the orders are 

 listed in "phylogenetic" sequence modified from Nelson 

 (1984) . Subtaxa within each order are listed 

 alphabetically. Page numbers for each taxon are given 

 in the index at the end of the report. 



Table 5 - This table is a summary of pooled occurrences of all 

 larval fish taxa taken on CalCOFI surveys from 1951 to 

 1960. Taxa are listed in the same order as in Table 4. 



Table 6 - List of stations which were occupied more than once 

 one month during 1953. 



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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 



Elbert Ahlstrom, David Kramer, Robert Counts, and probably 

 others originally identified larvae from CalCOFI cruises of 

 1953. Douglas Hammond and Ronald Whyte coded each larval fish 

 taxon or type and Rita Ford entered them into the computer. 

 Debby Snow efficiently assisted in all aspects of data editing 

 and retrieval. Cindy Meyer, Larry Zins, and James Ryan provided 

 programming assistance. Dorothy Roll designed the CalCOFI data 

 acquisition system and provided data processing support. Ken 

 Raymond, Roy Allen, and Henry Orr helped with graphics and 

 production of the report. Lorraine Prescott and Diane Forsythe 

 prepared the manuscript for printing. Paul Smith determined 

 statistical outliers, provided assistance during geographical 

 outlier checks and offered helpful suggestions throughout the 

 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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