This progress report covers the two-year period of April 1962-March 1964 in an attempt to make the reports current. In it, you can find analysis of softshell clam populations in multiple bays, including Siuslaw, Nehalem, and Tillamook. This report includes counts for personal-use clam diggers, as well as clam digging...
This report is an update of shellfish investigations from April 1967 to March 1970. It includes the results of bay clam surveys for Yaquina, Siuslaw, and Umpqua bays, and harvest numbers for razor clams in both personal-use and commercial fisheries. This report also contains a summary of beach surveys for...
This report is an update of shellfish investigations from April 1964 to March 1965. Inside can be found a summary of two clam mortality events. It also has the numbers of razor clams dug for sport and commercial fisheries and the results of the 1964 razor clam beach survey. This...
This report is an update of shellfish investigations from April 1961-March 1962. It includes a summary of observations of clam conditions, and discusses a Netarts Bay clam mortality, which drove the Fish Commission to ask the Tillamook County Court to inform them of any future construction projects involving estuaries. It...
This report explains razor clam wastage and talks about how to control it. Along with giving a definition, it also discusses enforcement of shellfish regulations and gives recommendations on addressing the issue.
This report has a review of razor clam regulations on both personal and commercial diggers. It contains the harvest numbers for several years, as well as their age composition. The report describes the harvest and wastage of young clams, as well as discussing possibilities for decreasing that wastage, with focus...