Originally published as Bulletin of the US Bureau of Fisheries, Volume XLIII, 1927, Part I, this is a classic of the fisheries literature that has been out-of-print and unavailable too long. For each species included in the book, the authors attempted to provide common names, descriptions (in language as non-technical as possible), diagnostic characteristics, variations, food and feeding habits, spawning, embryology and larval development, growth rates, relative abundance, commercial importance, habitat and specimens in the Smithsonian collection.

Fishes of the Chesapeake Bay

Science & Math

Hildebrand, Samuel F.

Schroeder, William C.

Biological Sciences

Blackburn Press

<div>Part One, the inaugural volume in the Fishes of the Western North Atlantic series, describes lancelets, hagfishes, lampreys, and sharks. Specialist authorships of its sections include detailed species descriptions with keys, life history and general habits, abundance, range, and relation to human activity, such as economic and sporting importance. The text is written for an audience of amateur and professional ichthyologists, sportsmen, and fishermen, based on new revisions, original research, and critical reviews of existing information. Species are illustrated by exceptional black and white line drawings, accompanied by distribution maps and tables of meristic data.</div>

Lancelets, Cyclostomes, Sharks: Part 1 (Fishes of the Western North Atlantic)

Bigelow, Henry B.

Farfante, Isabel Perez

The Yale Peabody Museum

The Fishes of the Western North Atlantic series, which began publication in the 1940s by Yale University's Sears Foundation for Marine Research, was from its beginnings conceived to synthesize and make accessible the wealth of information in widely scattered published accounts of the fish fauna of the region for both the layman and the specialist, presenting critical reviews rather than compilations. These reference works are still considered valuable and of interest today to both general audiences and the academic community. As described in the Preface to the first volume, the series was "written on the premise that it should be useful to those in many walks of life--to those casually ... interested ..., to the sportsman ..., to the fisherman ..., as well as to the amateur ichthyologist and the professional scientist." These books remain authoritative studies of the anadromous, estuarine, and marine fishes of the waters of the western North Atlantic from Hudson Bay southward to the Amazon, ranking as primary references for both amateurs and professionals interested in fishes, and as significant working tools for students of the sea.

Sawfishes, Guitarfishes, Skates and Rays, Chimaeroids: Part 2 (Fishes of the Western North Atlantic)

Soft-rayed Bony Fishes: Orders Acipenseroidei, Lepisostei, and Isospondyli: Part 3 (Fishes of the Western North Atlantic)

Miller, Robert R.

Mead, Giles W

Bradbury, Margaret G.

Dymond, John R

Greeley, John R

Rivas, Luis R

Suttkus, Royal D

Vladykov, Vadim D

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