Acknowledgments

    For financial support we thank the industries and organizations participating in the Cape Fear River Program; the University of North Carolina Water Resources Research Institute (Project #70136 and Project #70156); the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, the Cannon Foundation, and the North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries (Contract #M6047). For technical help we thank Dr. J.M. Burkholder and Dr. L.B. Cahoon. We thank the N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries, Wilmington Office, and the biologists of District 2 and 4 of the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission for their cooperation in collecting and transmitting fisheries data used in this report. Confirmation of rare fish identification was provided by F. Rohde. P. Schlenger and J. Bichy produced the fisheries data figures used in this report. The N.C. Estuarine Research Reserve kindly provided office support and the vessel used to conduct gillnet sampling.
    For field and laboratory assistance we thank J. Bichy, A. Darazdi, D.M. Gay, D.C. Parsons, J. Rogers, P. Schlenger, and G. Wahl. We thank B. Baldridge and other volunteers from Cape Fear RiverWatch for helping with field data collection. For information we thank L. Ausley, J. Bushardt, S. Petter and R. Shiver of the North Carolina Division of Water Quality, and J. Barker of North Carolina State University for unpublished data. River flow data was provided by J. Bales and D. Walters of the U.S. Geological Survey, Raleigh, N.C., and rainfall data was provided by T. Keever of the State Climatologist Office, North Carolina State University, Raleigh.

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