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Acknowledgments 
We thank Don Deibel, Sing Hoi Lee, Lori Meade, 
Kristine Miller, and Don H. Steele for assistance in 
prey identification; Rhonda Ford and Susan Forsey 
for providing the stomach-content analysis method 
and the majority of the data used in this study; Gavin 
Crutcher, John Horne, Daniel Ings, Dave Pinsent, 
and Tom Therriault for their help with various sta- 
tistical packages; and Derek Keats for comments on 
the manuscript. Financial support was provided by 
the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research 
Council of Canada (NSERC) and by the Northern Cod 
Science Program (Department of Fisheries and 
Oceans). 
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