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We thank the officers and crew of the NOAA Ship Gor¬ 
don Gunter, P. Piantamura, M. Lowe, E. Broughton, 
J. Prezioso, and J. Rosendale for their assistance with 
beam trawl collections. We also thank the NEFSC Eco¬ 
systems Survey Branch and the Virginia Institute of 
Marine Science, especially D. Gauthier for the bottom 
trawl data. K. Marancik, D. Packer, and 3 anonymous 
reviewers provided comments on a previous version of 
the manuscript. 
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