Detailed systematic treatment of the fish species themselves is not included and consists of only the genus and species name with a listing of common names. General descriptive information on the biology and distribution of fish taxa described in the following sections, except where indicated, is primarily after Hart (1973); Eschmeyer et al. (1983); Harbo (1999); and with assistance from Froese and Pauly (2001).Remarks on the preservation potential of some scales of some taxa apply equally to all members of a particular genera or family, and in some cases these comments are placed at the appropriate taxonomic level to avoid redundancy. Not all taxa in British Columbia waters are included here, as some were simply not available to us.