Book by Murdy, Edward O., Musick, John A., Birdsong, Ray S. ". . . it will serve as a valuable resource for any enthusiast interested in the fishes from this region . . . ." -- Quarterly Review of Biology "Batfish . . . [to] whalesuckers-if they've ever been seen in Chesapeake waters, you'll see them in Fishes of Chesapeake Bay." -- New Bay Times Edward O. Murdy is an ichthyologist with the National Science Foundation's Office of International Science and Engineering and a visiting researcher in the Department of Fishes at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. Ray S. Birdsong was professor of biological sciences at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, until his death in 1995. John A. Musick is the A. Marshall Acuff, Jr., Professor of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science.