abiotic factors controlling seasonal and annual variations 
in distribution and abundance of coastal and oceanic lar- 
val fishes.” 
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 
The larval fishes used in this study were sorted and 
identified by the staff of the Ichthyoplankton Inves- 
tigation, Northeast Fisheries Center Narragansett 
Laboratory, National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA. 
We thank Susan Senerchia for the initial tabulation of 
the cruise data, Alice DeNofa and Dorothy Shavers for 
typing the tables, and Lianne Armstrong for preparing 
the figures. 
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