This report describes the activities of the Coastal Rivers Section, including spawning ground surveys, inventory and obstruction surveys, shad and striped bass landing data, lake rearing studies, the physical and chemical characteristics of south coastal streams and various salmonid rearing and ecological studies.
Razor clam catches from Clatsop beaches (Tillamook Head-Columbia River) were sampled regularly from March through September and periodically the rest of the year. Diggers were interviewed for number and age composition of clams harvested and the distribution and number of diggers. Data from beaches south of Tillamook Head were collected...
This report on departmental activities describes "physical stream and lake surveys, spawning fish surveys and individual investigations of particular human activities which might affect the well being of the salmon resource. The advent of federal cooperation has allowed an expansion of activities to include intensive collection of data on streams...