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Acknowledgments 
We thank Capt. John Kipp, who provided us with 
most of the bonefish examined in this study and with- 
out whose efforts this work would not have been pos- 
sible. We thank Capt. Mike Collins of the Florida 
Keys Fishing Guides Association, the staff of the 
Islamorada bonefish tournaments for their support, 
and Chris Harnden, Jim Colvocoresses, John Hunt, 
and others at the South Florida Regional Labora- 
tory for their cooperation. We also thank David 
Camp, Bill Lyons, Ed Matheson, and Tom Perkins 
for confirming identifications of bonefish prey and 
Gil McRae for help with the PRIMER software pack- 
age. Llyn French, Judy Leiby, Ed Matheson, Gil 
McRae, Jim Quinn, and Dana Winkelman made help- 
ful comments that improved the manuscript. This 
work was supported in part by funding from the De- 
partment of the Interior, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Ser- 
vice, Federal Aid for Sportfish Restoration, Project 
Number F-59. 
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