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Table 2.— Adjusted catch of yellowtail flounder larvae by size group, depth, and time. Results are presented by day, 

 beginning with the initial daylight tow, although we began sampling at 1000 h (Station A) and finished at 0700 h (Station Z). 



1900 to 0100 h on the first day; from 1600 to 2200 h 

 on the second day; and from 1600 to 0100 h on the 

 third day. The evening ascent toward the surface 

 occurred during the time of peak feeding, but the 

 incidence of feeding remained highest in larvae 

 caught at 20 m before, during, and after the even- 

 ing ascent (Figure 4). We concluded that essential 

 prey organisms occur throughout the water col- 



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umn and that diel movements and feeding are not 

 directly related. 



DISCUSSION 



When Sette ( 1943) studied the early life history 

 of Atlantic mackerel, Scomber scombrus, in the 

 Middle Atlantic Bight in 1929, he made four tows, 



