A symposium presented before a joint meeting of the
American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
and the Western Society of Naturalists at Stanford University
on June 29, 1939, and published as a special issue
of the Stanford Ichthyological Bulletin through the cooperation
of the Fish Commission of the State of...
Published March 1989. 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
The temperate water fisheries for albacore in the North Pacific seem to exploit somewhat similar segments of the respective populations present in the various localities. It is clear that in most of the exploited populations two or at most three year classes are highly dominant. In the California fishery from...
Exceptional data are available for the study of the salmon runs of the Columbia River in 1938. Detailed figures on catch were supplied by Oregon and Washington in such form that they could readily be combined with the counts at Bonneville Dam to provide a basis for estimating the escapement....