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Acknowledgments 
We thank the managers at PT. Perikanan Samodra Besar, 
PT. Sari Segara Utama, and PT. Bandar Nelayan for 
facilitating catch sampling at their processing plants in 
Benoa. We are grateful to Waluyo Suharto, Kiroan Siregar, 
Mashar Machmud, and Labuhan Siregar for monitoring 
catches at the various plants; Sofri Bahar at the Research 
Institute of Marine Fisheries, Indonesia, for coordinating 
the monitoring program; and Duyet Le for laboratory 
assistance. We thank Kurt Schaefer, Bill Hearn, and John 
Stevens for their reviews of the manuscript and Vivienne 
Mawson for editing. This research was supported by Fish- 
eries Resources Research Fund Grants from the Austra- 
lian Fisheries Management Authority. 
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