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ing and conditions favorable for larval growth (CURY & ROY, 1989). Despite fluctuations in recruitment caused by environmental variability, reproductive strategies adapted to long-term average conditions of an area will result in maintenance of the local populations. A well-known description of an adapted reproductive strategy can be found in capelin in Newfoundland coastal waters (FRANK & LEGGETT, 1982). Interestingly, the results of a subsequent study (FRANK & LEGGETT, 1983) indicated a synchronous emergence and resulting co-occurrence of capelin larvae and larvae of other demersal spawning species that led the authors to propose that mul-tispecies larval fish associations are adaptive and result from similar responses among species to the pelagic envi-ronment. Under the general framework of multispecies approaches to the study of fish populations, Ôan important consideration in larval assemblage studies is whether they have an intrinsic adaptive functionÕ (MOSER & SMITH, 1993), as suggested by FRANK & LEGGETT (1983). In the Mediterranean, the period of late spring-early summer, characterized by the development of the seasonal thermocline, is a transition period in the spawning of