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Creator:: Morgan, Alfred R., Gerlach, Arthur R., Oregon. Fish Commission, and Oregon. State Game Commission
Abstract:: 1. There is no evidence of a decline in the striped bass population of Coos Bay. 2. The striped bass, a species introduced to the West Coast of North America, has been important as a recreational and commercial fish in Coos Bay since the late 1920s. The catch has ranged...
Resource Type:: Technical Report

Creator:: Gharrett, John T., Hodges, John I., and Oregon. Fish Commission
Abstract:: In spite of the progressive restrictions of the commercial river fishery during the past fifty years, the trend of the salmon populations of the coastal rivers has been downward. It is almost impossible to isolate and analyze separately the causes of this decline, and any attempt to saddle one factor...
Resource Type:: Technical Report

Creator:: McKernan, Donald L. (Donald Lynn), 1918-1979, Johnson, Donald R., Hodges, John I., and Oregon. Fish Commission
Abstract:: Three factors were found to be significantly correlated with the fluctuations and trends in silver salmon production in Oregon. Logging was found to adversely affect the runs of salmon in later years. Exceptional winter floods seem to produce poor resulting runs. Low summer water flows also appear to produce lower...
Resource Type:: Technical Report

Creator:: Oregon. Fish Commission, Twohy, Donald W., and Cordon, Ronald
Abstract:: This progress report contains updates on two phases of the razor clam investigations. The report focuses on length frequency data on the 1949-50 set of young clams, including graphs and figures, but also has a section on the abundance, mortality, and growth of the 1949 year class.
Resource Type:: Technical Report

Creator:: Oregon. Fish Commission. Research Division
Abstract:: The Fish Commission of Oregon was tagging Dungeness crabs in the late 1940s and early 1950s to see how far the crabs moved between moltings. This document gives data on crab tags retrieved between November 21, 1947 and February 21, 1950. Some crabs were indeed wanderers: crabs released in the...
Resource Type:: Technical Report

Creator:: Tollefson, Roger, Marriage, Lowell D., and Oregon. Fish Commission
Abstract:: In 1949, the Army Corps of Engineers dredged Coos Bay. “Despite objection of local residents, commercial clam diggers, and the Fish Commission” the Corps dumped dredging spoils on a commercially important clam bed, and destroyed much of it. “This year, with an earlier start and more data, it is hoped...
Resource Type:: Technical Report

Creator:: Tollefson, Roger, Marriage, Lowell D., Twahy, Donald, Wilkes, Stanley, Woelke, Charles, and Oregon. Fish Commission
Abstract:: This report contains a series of individual reports within it. The main report continues growth and aging studies on fat gaper clams in Yaquina Bay. This document also includes a report on other Fish Commission activities on the Coast, a summary of razor clam research, the beginning of a survey...
Resource Type:: Technical Report

Creator:: Oregon. Fish Commission
Abstract:: An excellent opportunity was afforded to observe growth of horseclams of the one-year-plus class when it was discovered April 7, 1950, that a newly formed mud flat in Yaquina Bay, formed September and October 1948 by fill from dredging operations, had thousands of young horseclams embedded in it.” (p.1) Growth...
Resource Type:: Technical Report

Creator:: Oregon. Fish Commission. Research Division
Abstract:: Should fishing by crab pots instead of crab rings be allowed in certain bays in Oregon? An error caused the ban on crab pots to be deleted from the statutes. This 1950 paper considers whether the ban on crabpots should be reinstated in Siletz, Yaquina and Alsea Bays. This is...
Resource Type:: Technical Report

Creator:: Oregon. State Game Commission
Abstract:: Issue does not carry date of publication. Generally covers May 1, 1949 - April 30, 1950. Time periods for which statistics are given occasionally vary.
Resource Type:: Technical Report

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