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...
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...
Published January 1950. Facts and recommendations in this publication may no longer be valid. Please look for up-to-date information in the OSU Extension Catalog: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog
Published January 1950. Facts and recommendations in this publication may no longer be valid. Please look for up-to-date information in the OSU Extension Catalog: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog
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...