This report on departmental activities describes "physical stream and lake surveys, spawning fish surveys and individual investigations of particular human activities which might affect the well being of the salmon resource. The advent of federal cooperation has allowed an expansion of activities to include intensive collection of data on streams...
This report describes the activities of the Coastal Rivers Section, including spawning ground surveys, inventory and obstruction surveys, shad and striped bass landing data, lake rearing studies, the physical and chemical characteristics of south coastal streams and various salmonid rearing and ecological studies.
"Activities included spawning ground and physical stream surveys, sampling of shad and striped bass commercial fisheries, population estimates of juvenile coho in selected streams, evaluating releases of adult and fry coho, studying coho in a lake environment, and investigations on the ecology of fall chinook in south coastal streams." (p.1)