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Acknowledgments 
The support of those scientists on scientific surveys 
conducted with 2 commercial jigging vessels, FV Jinhai 
827 and FV Ningtai 21 is gratefully acknowledged. This 
work was funded by the National Science Foundation 
of China (NSFC41306127 and NSFC41276156), Na- 
tional Science Foundation of Shanghai (13ZR1419700), 
the Innovation Program of Shanghai Municipal Edu- 
cation Commission (13YZ091), State 863 projects 
(2012AA092303), the Funding Program for Outstanding 
Dissertations in Shanghai Ocean University, the Fund- 
ing Scheme for Training Young Teachers in Shanghai 
Colleges and Shanghai Leading Academic Discipline 
Project (Fisheries Discipline). The involvement of Y. 
Chen was supported by SHOU International Center 
for Marine Studies and Shanghai 1000 Talent Program. 
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