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Fischereiwissenschaft) and involved in the larval 
sampling cruises, especially to E. Lopez-Jamar, S. H. 
Coombs, A. Garcia, R. Knust, and W. Nellen. We are 
also grateful for the contribution and the support of J. 
M. Cabanas and C. Porteiro, and we would like to thank 
E. Moksness and two anonymous reviewers who offered 
useful suggestions for improvement of the manuscript. 
This work was carried out with partial funding from 
the Consejo Interministerial de Ciencia y Tecnologia 
(CICYT) of Spain, contract 91.0089, and from the Fish- 
eries Aquaculture Research (FAR) programme of the 
European Union, contract MA196. 
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