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drawn. All that can be stated with certainty about 
the biological community is the tautology: the fish 
that were landed were present at the site where the 
gear was deployed and were available to the gear 
used at the time. The biases introduced by the selec- 
tivity of this system obscure events in the natural 
system and provide little insight into the changes in 
the fish community. However, these data do show a 
clear structure of the harvest due to fishing behav- 
ior and how that structure changes seasonally. The 
causes of those changes remain unclear. To address 
this problem, more effort in quantifying discards, 
recreational fishing mortality, and natural variability 
is needed, as well as a better understanding of the ac- 
cessibility and economics driving the social system. 
Acknowledgments 
I would like to thank R. G. Muller, F. S. Kennedy, 
and J. R. O’Hop for their guidance and editorial com- 
ments. Special thanks go to E. Irby for providing me 
with valuable insight into the harvest of offshore 
pelagic species. I am also indebted to J. Quinn for 
his extensive editorial comments on this document. 
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