This report is one of a series prepared by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) which summarizes the physical and biological data for selected Oregon estuaries. The reports are intended to assist coastal planners and resource managers in Oregon fulfilling the inventory and comprehensive plan requirements of the...
Oregon's estuaries have been significantly altered by human activity, so that many former tidal wetlands no longer provide the functions, such as fish and wildlife habitat, erosion protection from storms, and water quality maintenance, that preserve the integrity of estuarine ecosystems. Oregon has been a leader in wetland protection and...
Station data (weather, cloud cover, air temperature, salinity, water temperature, current velocity, tide stage and height, hydrogen sulphide and pH) are presented for eleven stations in and near Coos Bay. These data were collected over a three year period several times a day at approximately bi-weekly intervals.
John H. Wampole's list of the birds of the Coos Bay area from 1958-59 is one of few such compilations from that region, and the only reasonably accessible one from its era except for Giesler (1952), which covered only the Cape Arago region. Wampole's list has been circulating informally as...
Temperature, salinity, and current measurements extending over one
or more tidal cycles were made at various times during the three-year
period 1960-1962 in Coos Bay, on the central Oregon coast (43°20'N,
124°13'W). Dissolved oxygen was measured occasionally. The three
regular sampling stations are shown in Figure 1. Station A is...
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...