LIST OF FISHES 



The 630 species of fish identified fror. Oreopn collections 

 made in the Gulf of KexLco represent a good sample of the kinds of fish 

 readily caught by shrimp trawls in depths from 10 to 250 fathoms. 

 Shrimp trawls were used also for a few drags out to depths of 1200 

 fathoms and for a few inside the 10 fathom curve. Exploratory drags 

 were nade with Z+O-foot nets in areas \^^.ere no ccrjercial fishing had 

 been carried on. '.'here catches vdth the hD- foot nets were promising, 

 larger nets were used to obtain a better assessment of the production 

 potential. A small ajicunt of the total fishing effort was made with 

 a variety of other gear such as handlines, traps, lift nets, lampara 

 nets, purse seines, and bottom set lines. Beginning in Kay 1954, 

 longlines were used in offshore waters usually supplemented by night 

 fishing at the surface with lights to attract fishes within reach of 

 dip nets or cast nets, 



,ve ai'e jndebted to nenry B. Bigelcw and Willian C. Schroeder 

 for identification of n:ost of the sharks and rays. Hagfish and chim- 

 aera specimens and the smaller sharks and rays were forwarded to the 

 I-aiseum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College for examination. 

 Ten new species have been described from this material and holotypes 

 have been deposited in the U. S. National iiuseum. Identifications 

 of the larger shares and ra;5'-s were made aboard the Oregon by menbers 

 of the staff of the Pascagoula station. 



Identification of large nuniiers of fishes from the Oregon 

 collections were made by i^oren P. Woods and. i-iarion Gr^ of the Chicago 

 Katural History 1-iuseum, by Royal D. Suttkus of Tulane University, and 

 by Giles Mead of the U. S. Fish and Vj'ildlife Service. Special lots 

 or series in special groups were identified by G. S, kyers of Stanford 

 University, Luis Rivas aixi Victor Springer of the University of Miami, 

 henr:>' Hildebrand of the University of Texas, David Caldiirell and Leonard 

 Giovannoli of the University of Florida, L. P. Schultz, E. h. Lachner, 

 and Robert Kanazawa of the U. S. National Kuseum, Hurst N. Shoemaker 

 of the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, and others. 



Routine identification and records of the catches at sea 

 were rade by the staff of the Pascagoula exploratory fishing station. 

 As a general rule, at least one determir^ition of each species has been 

 made by a qualified specialist. The authors have attempted to eliminate 

 doubtful records while including as many locality records as possible. 

 At the same time the authors have tried to avoid questions of nomen- 

 clature by including identifications under the names supplied by the 

 specialist identifying the material. Errors and inconsistencies are 

 perhaps inevitable and are the responsibility of the authors. Family 

 names are given merely for convenience in the presentation of the 

 distribution data and do not indicate an opinion on the part of the 

 authors as to the proper arrangement. 



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