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...
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 The previous legislative session had repealed many outdated laws but kept them in effect until the Fish Commission could study the issue and propose new regulations.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...
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...