A personal history of fish bioacoustics

Together, we represent more than 100 years of research on various aspects of fish bioacoustics, starting with basic work on hearing, and continuing today in our individual and joint work on effects of man-made sound on aquatic animals. Over the course of our careers, we have had the honor of knowing, and in some cases working with, many of the true pioneers in our field—people whose contributions were fundamental to fish bioacoustics, and whose work should be read and known by everyone who is pursuing marine bioacoustics now and those who enter the field in the future. During the course of this talk we will briefly mention the contributions of notables one or both of us has personally known including (in alphabetical order): John Blaxter, Horst Bleckmann, Rob Buwalda, Colin Chapman, Sheryl Coombs, Eric Denton, Sven Dijkgraaf, Andreas Elepfandt, Per Enger, Richard Fay John Gray, Donald Griffin, Gerard Harris, Kathleen Horner, Cathy McCormick, James Moulton, Arthur A. Myrberg Jr., Antares Parvulescu, Christopher Platt, Olav Sand, Arie Schuijf, William Tavolga, and Willem van Bergeijk. We dedicate this presentation to our close friend and collaborator, and one of the great pioneers of studies of fish hearing, Richard R. Fay.