“Starting the first part of July, 1947, the Fish Commission of Oregon set up a field station at Newport for the purpose of conducting research on shellfish.” (p.1) The status of clams in Yaquina Bay was the first topic studied. This paper gives the conditions of clam beds, lists species...
Best available copy. Originally published as part of Shellfish investigation progress report no. 4. “In the spring of 1947, importation of Pacific oyster seed from Japan was resumed for the first time since before the war. Major plantings of this seed were made in Tillamook and Coos Bay with additional...
By 1948, Oregon’s clamming regulations spilled over into fifty-one different sections of administrative rules. They were “cumbersome” at best. The previous legislative session had repealed many outdated laws but kept them in effect until the Fish Commission could study the issue and propose new regulations. The Commission had been studying...
Gives proposed regulations for the recreational and commercial Dungeness crab fisheries. “A considerable tourist and sports crab fishery exists on which at the present there are no regulations whatsoever. As a result, certain practices have developed … which are believed detrimental to the fishery. The most readily seen of these...
This document marks the beginning of a long struggle for Oregon natural resource managers to find the best time to open the crab season. The time of crab molting is highly variable, and it is hard to determine the best time (firm shells, full of meat) to start the commercial...
Much of this report is concerned with the perennial question of when crabs are in the soft-shell state, as opposed to when the commercial fishing season should be open. Other topics covered include molted crab shells, methods of measuring crab shells to determine if they meet size limits, early growth...
Report of a meeting about two diking districts on the Yaquina River. Tide gates had failed and brackish water was flowing into areas where cattle were grazing, to the dismay of some local farmers.
In mid-December, 1948, during the time the crab season was closed in State waters, a boat caught crabs outside the entrance to the Columbia River, which was outside the three-mile jurisdictional limit. Because "one man was already fishing," the crab fleet members began to complain and threaten to fish before...
Gives crab boats and number of pots fished for Astoria and Tillamook Bay. Gives number of crab pots being fished for given localities. Gives per cent of soft-shelled crabs by local areas.
Did regulations restricting the harvest of cockle clams by recreational clammers also restrict commercial harvesting for crab bait? In the case of Netarts Bay, they did not. The reasons for the exemption are given in this document.