Hams and McGovern: Changes in the life history of Pagrus pagrus 
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Year 
Figure 1 1 
Mean summer bottom temperature of the South Atlantic Bight, 1987-94. Temperatures were 
recorded between April and October of each year. 
1996; Gilmore and Jones, 1992), then another fish, 
presumably the largest (=dominant) female would 
take over that territory and begin to undergo transi- 
tion (Shapiro, 1981). As modern technology allows 
fishermen to locate good fishing sites precisely, all 
large fish could be removed from an area. The in- 
crease in the number of males seen during 1988-90 
may also be a function of fish size. As large males 
