William N. Eschmeyer and his Catalog of Fishes. Images by the California Academy of Sciences.
By Daniel Pauly, Rainer Froese and Nicolas Bailly.
The Quantitative Aquatics and Sea Around Us teams lament the passing of W.N ‘Bill’ Eschmeyer (1939-2024), the founding editor and namesake of the Eschmeyer’s Catalog of Fishes (ECoF).