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caught at longer bridle lengths. Because four of the re- 
maining five species also displayed declining, but nonsig- 
nificant, changes in fish length, a decrease in fish length 
with increasing bridle length seems to be a general flatfish 
pattern for this trawl. In all cases, however, the magnitude 
of the decrease was quite small (Fig. 3). 
