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Acknowledgments 



This study was funded, in part, by Oregon Sea Grant 

 with funds from NOAA, Office of Sea Grant, Depart- 

 ment of Commerce, under grant NA85AA-D-SG095 

 (project R/OPF-29) and from appropriations made by 

 the Oregon State Legislature; by the Pacific Outer 

 Continental Shelf Region of the Minerals Management 

 Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, Washington, 

 D.C., under Contract 14-12-0001-30429; and by Na- 

 tional Marine Fisheries Service contract NA-87-ABH- 

 00014. Some ship time was generously donated by 

 T.N. Thompson. C. Ridgley, D. Nelson, S. Banks, and 

 R. Melendez helped collect data. Shipboard work was 

 made as pleasant as circumstances permitted by T.N. 

 Thompson and the crew of FV Olympic. A. Kendall 

 (NMFS, Seattle, WA), W. Lenarz (NMFS, Tiburon, 

 CA), and G. Moser and J. Butler (NMFS, La Jolla, 

 CA) shared results of ongoing research. W. Pearcy, 

 D. Stein, and collaborators saved, documented, and 

 made available 20 years of planktonic and midwater 

 trawl collections that were invaluable for this study. 



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