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waters chiefly o\'ei" the continental shelf. Many of the species given, however, 

 range to deep waters and bevond North American seas. Many of the pelagic 

 species are world-wide in distribution. 



Because of the tremendous scope of the subject of the sea, the reader is 

 asked to refer to the bibliography for detailed information. 



There is a great body of unknown facts that only the swimmer can procure 

 because of his intimate contact with the sea. In 1933, Beebe and Tee-Van 

 wrote that ". . . not one complete life history of a Bermuda fish is known." That 

 statement is larpcly true today of marine fishes exervwhere. This guide has been 

 written in response to the growing interest in the sea and its life in the hope 

 that better knowledge of the sea and its relationship to man will result. 



Carleton Ray and Elgin T. Ciampi 

 April, 1956 



