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Beaufort Laboratory; and commercial port samplers 
Charles Schaefer, Tim Brandt, Claudia Dennis, and Renee 
Roman, NMFS Miami Laboratory. Charles S. Manooch III 
and Jennifer Potts, NMFS Beaufort, provided guidance in 
the techniques of aging otolith sections. Doug Vaughan 
and Jim Waters, NMFS Beaufort, and Potts provided valu- 
able advice on statistical analyses, and. C.S. Manooch, 
J. Potts, and Joseph Smith, NMFS Beaufort, as well as 
three anonymous reviewers, provided constructive critical 
reviews of the manuscript. 
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