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Fifteen years in the making, this updated edition raises the standard of Bigelow and Schroeder's 1953 reference by drawing from a much larger base of information. Thirty-eight experts in fisheries biology and ichthyology distill the enormous amount of knowledge gained since the 1950s including distribution figures from 30 years of annual trawl surveys; food habits accounts from surveys of the stomach contents of more than 30,000 fishes; and egg distribution data from a survey exceeding 10,000 samples. The contributors update Bigelow & Schroeder's 1953 material while presenting a wealth of new information, including 33 additional species accounts. By adding 50 per cent more material and focusing the volume on data, the editors address the needs of biologists and commercial fishers in 2002.

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I wrote in 1966, 'The usefulness of this text can hardly be overemphasized.' [The new edition is] an excellent revision and upgrading of Bigelow and coauthors' monumental work.... I'm sure they, too, would be proud. - W.B. Scott, co-author of The Atlantic Fishes of Canada

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Henry B. Bigelow (1879-1967) was the founding director of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute; William C. Schroeder (1895-1977) was widely considered the world's expert on skates, rays, and sharks; Bruce B. Collette is currently the senior scientist at the National Marine Fisheries Service's National Systematics Laboratory; Grace Klein-MacPhee is a research scientist at the University of Rhode Island's Graduate School of Oceanography.

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