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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This West Coast inventory would not have been possible without the technical support and assistance of many,
many individuals and organizations. We cannot express our appreciation enough to all involved for their efforts
and contributions to this scientific endeavor. The inventory provides relevant benchmarks to our understanding
of the biological diversity of fishes in some of the Nation’s most important marine and estuarine ecosystems.
We were graciously provided with a substantial amount of unpublished fish data and helpful commentary,
advice, and peer review by Alisa Abookire, Larry Allen, M. Eric Anderson, Yumi Arimitsu, Joe Bizarro, Morgan S.
Busby, Greg Cailliet, Jay Carroll, Howard Chang, Sharon Charter, Natalia V. Chernova, Dave Clausen, Brian Coad,
Matthew Craig, Allen Cramer, David J. Csepp, John Cusick, David A. Ebert, William N. Eschmeyer, V. V. Fedorov,
Jared Figurski, John E. Fitch, Nora Foster, Robin Gartman, Graham E. Gillespie, Ami Groce, Dana Haggarty, Jeff
Harding, Karsten Hartel, Tim Herrlinger, Eric Hessell, Jerry Hoff, Brenda A. Holladay, Lee B. Hulbert, Dan Jehl,
Scott Johnson, Jackie King, Gene Kira, Paul Krause, David Kushner, Tom Laidig, Robert N. Lea, Charles Lean, Scott
Matern, John E. McCosker, Laird McDonald, Ann C. Matarese, Melissa Meeker, H. Geoffrey Moser, Joseph S. Nelson,
Mary Nishimoto, Steve Norton, Victoria M. O’Connell, James W. Orr, John O’Sullivan, Michelle Paddock, Wayne A.
Palsson, Don Pearson, Alex E. Peden, William J. Poly, Dan Pondella, Rebecca Reuter, Dan Richards, Tyson Roberts,
Ross Robertson, Jorge Rosales Casian, David Roseneau, Mike Schaadt, Donna Schroeder, Mark Schroeder, Mike
Shane, Boris A. Sheiko, Jeff Siegel, David G. Smith, Wade Smith, David L. Stein, John Stephens, Duane E. Stevenson,
Adam P. Summers,Tierney Thys, Vanessa Tuttle, Chuck Valle, William van Orden, Neville Venables, Eric Vetter,
Kenneth D. Vogt, Diana Watters, Mark Wilkins, Nick Wilsman, Carrie Worton, Tina Wyllie Echeverria, and Mary
Yoklavich. Some of our colleagues were consistently helpful throughout a number of years and we are extremely
grateful for their patience and willingness to donate their time and expertise. We are also no less appreciative of
those who provided occasional but valuable data and information about this important fauna.
We gratefully acknowledge the tireless museum personnel and specialists who worked with us in making
specimens available and assisting in their examination. We thank Richard Feeney, Los Angeles County Museum of
Natural History (LACM collection); Phil Hastings, Cynthia Klepadio, Richard Rosenblatt, and H. J. Walker, Scripps
Institution of Oceanography (SIO); and Boris A. Sheiko, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg (ZIN). Also
we thank the museum personnel who graciously hosted us during our research visits and for their ready and onthe-spot
assistance to us during the course of this project. In addition to those individuals identified above, we
acknowledge the technical assistance and support of Bruce L. Wing, NOAA Fisheries, Auke Bay Biological Laboratory
(AB); William N. Eschmeyer, Jon Fong, Tomio Iwamoto, and William J. Poly at the California Academy of Sciences
(CAS); Gordon Haas at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Museum (UAM); Bruce B. Collette, Susan Jewett, David
G. Smith, and Jeffrey T. Williams at the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Division
of Fishes (USNM); and Katherine Pearson Maslenikov and Theodore W. Pietsch at the University of Washington
School of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (UW). Alex E. Peden and Kelly Sendall confirmed collection information
and diagnostic characters on specimens held at the Royal British Columbia Museum, Victoria, B.C. (RBCM). Karsten
Hartel provided specimen records from the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University (MCZ); and
Brian Coad from the National Museums of Canada in Ottawa (NMC). Finally, we thank Tim Thomas, Maritime
Museum of Monterey for giving us permission and access to the unpublished records of Julius Phillips.
Projects of the geographic size and taxonomic scale of this inventory require tremendous library support.
Our work would not have been successful without the cheerful assistance of Interlibrary Loan personnel at the
University of California, Santa Barbara and University of Alaska Southeast, Juneau. Many hard-to-find documents
were made available to us through their efforts for which we are especially grateful. Similarly, we thank Joan
Parker, Moss Landing Marine Laboratory, for her work in finding many obscure but relevant publications.
Sponsorship
The U.S. Geological Survey and the Minerals Management Service provided funding for the inventory. Much of
the research was performed under a cooperative agreement between the USGS’s Western Fisheries Research Center
and the University of California at Santa Barbara (CA 03WRAG007). We thank William Walker (Biological Resources
Division) and Fred Piltz (Minerals Management Service) for their interest and support. Additional USGS funding
was provided to the Western Fisheries Research Center by the USGS National Biological Information Infrastructure
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