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nearshore, off northern California, Oregon, Washington, 
and perhaps Vancouver Island. 
Acknowledgments 
We are very grateful to the numerous scientists and 
technicians from the Southwest Fisheries Science 
Center (SWFSC) that contributed to the collection and 
archive of data from these surveys. We thank Russ 
Vetter, Director of the Fisheries Resources Division at 
SWFSC, and the Portuguese Foundation for Science and 
Technology (FCT-MCES) for funding J. P. Zwolinski’s 
postdoctoral internship (SFRH/BPD/44834/ 2008) with 
D. A. Demer at the SWFSC. Finally, we thank three 
anonymous reviewers for their constructive suggestions 
and comments. 
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