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Bill Schroeder with Chimaera on deck of the Captain Bill II.

Bill Schroeder with Chimaera on deck of the Captain Bill II.
Bill Schroeder with Chimaera on deck of the Captain Bill II.
Bill Schroeder with Chimaera on deck of the Captain Bill II.
Bill Schroeder with Chimaera on deck of the Captain Bill II.
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Hahn, Jan
Bill Schroeder with Chimaera on deck of the Captain Bill II.
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01/01/1953
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Captain Bill II was chartered in the 1950s for Bill Schroeder's use in collecting fish. Here he displays a deep-sea fish called Chimaera. Bigelow and Schroeder's revised, 577-page "Fishes of the Gulf of Maine" was published in 1953, followed the next year by the similarly weighty "Fishes of the Western North Atlantic: Sawfishes, Guitarfishes, Skates, and Rays." Schroeder discovered a deep-sea lobster population that was being exploited by the mid-1950s.
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In the 1950s William C. Schroeder was photographed displaying a deep-sea fish called a chimaera that he had collected. Schroedera fisheries biologist who held positions at WHOI and Harvard and was WHOI's Business Manager through its first two decadesco-authored two landmark books with WHOI's first Director, Henry Bryant Bigelow. Fishes of the Gulf of Maine and Fishes of the Western North Atlantic: Sawfishes, Guitarfishes, Skates, and Rays are still-used reference works.
Photo by Jan Hahn
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Jan Hahn Collection, MC-74, acquired by the Data Library and Archives November 24, 1992. Date range of photographs, 1947-1972.
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