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Acknowledgments 
This study was supported by a grant to T. E. Targett 
from the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Federal Aid 
in Fisheries Restoration, Wallop-Breaux Fund 
(project F-36-R:l-3), through the Delaware Department 
of Natural Resources and Environmental Control. 
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