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Wildlife Management Area for providing lodging, and 
the staff of the Texas Point National Wildlife Refuge 
for access to one of our field sites. We thank P. Caldwell 
for conducting the GIS analysis needed to weight the 
length-frequency distributions and for creating Fig- 
ure 1. A teaching assistaetship from the University of 
Louisiana at Lafayette, the Rockefeller Wildlife Schol- 
arship, the Coastal Conservation Association/Ted Beau- 
lieu Sr. Scholarship, a research grant from the Wetland 
Foundation, and the SEFSC provided funding for this 
project. We also thank T. Minello and 3 anonymous re- 
viewers whose comments improved this article. 
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