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Creator:: Tollefson, Roger and Oregon. Fish Commission
Abstract:: 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 The previous legislative session had repealed many outdated laws but kept them in effect until the Fish Commission could study the issue and propose new regulations.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...
Resource Type:: Technical Report

Creator:: Tollefson, Roger and Oregon. Fish Commission
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Technical Report

Creator:: Tollefson, Roger and Oregon. Fish Commission
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Technical Report

Creator:: Tollefson, Roger and Oregon. Fish Commission
Abstract:: “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...
Resource Type:: Technical Report

Creator:: Tollefson, Roger, Marriage, Lowell D., and Oregon. Fish Commission
Abstract:: This document is in three parts: a report on the ghost shrimp fishery, elucidation of a method to tax commercial crab landings, and a description of a commercial enterprise that was catching small shore crabs and embedding them in plastic for sale as tourist souvenirs.
Resource Type:: Technical Report
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Creator:: Tollefson, Roger, Marriage, Lowell D., and Oregon. Fish Commission
Abstract:: The new closed season for commercial crab fishing in Oregon went into effect in 1948. This 1949 document summarizes the results of the 1948 closure and details research and procedures being used to refine the closing dates. This document provides a good look at earlier methods of natural resource management...
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: V ( SUELL IS}i INVESTIGATION ±iiOGkLESS REPORT r) G1 LOkT

Creator:: Tollefson, Roger, Marriage, Lowell D., and Oregon. Fish Commission
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Technical Report

Creator:: Tollefson, Roger, Marriage, Lowell D., and Oregon. Fish Commission
Abstract:: 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.
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Creator:: Marriage, Lowell D. and Oregon. Fish Commission
Abstract:: The first regulations restricting clamming in Oregon were put into effect in 1948. Initial rules barred clamming from January 1 through June 30; clammers objected that this was too restrictive and lobbied for more time to take shellfish. This 1949 document examines the fat gaper or horseclam, to see when...
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: ... "'~ JUR'l'RER HORSECLAM COllDI'PION STUDIES Thh report 1_ int.nded a. a I1lppbrMnt 1;0 :tregrel' Report 118

Creator:: Tollefson, Roger, Marriage, Lowell D., and Oregon. Fish Commission
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: - PROGRESS REPORT 115 Dec.bar 9, 1948 lleS'tUat,iou .atting cloHd aeasOl1.l tor crab fishing in the

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