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Acknowledgments 
We are gratefui to B. Bourque and numerous under¬ 
graduate research assistants (Roger Williams Univer¬ 
sity [RWU], Bristol, Rhode Island) for their efforts in 
field sampling and stomach content analysis. We also 
thank S. Pratt (University of Rhode Island, Kingston, 
Rhode Island) for assisting with the identification of 
polychaetes recovered from stomachs of winter and 
summer flounder. This project was supported in part by 
the Rhode Island National Science Foundation Experi¬ 
mental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research, 
the Rhode Island Science and Technology Advisory 
Council Research Alliance Collaborative Grant, the 
RWU Foundation to Promote Scholarship Grant, and 
by Award P20RR016457 from the National Institutes 
of Health National Center for Research Resources. The 
content is solely the responsibility of the authors and 
does not necessarily represent the official views of the 
National Center for Research Resources or the Nation¬ 
al Institutes of Health. 
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