James Wilder Orr, formerly a research fisheries biologist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service, is currently an affiliate professor in the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, and affiliate curator of fishes at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture.

On July 11, 2023 Chatwin Books published his book, A Field Guide to Fishes of the Salish Sea.