"Letters and newspaper articles concerning the low quantity and poor quality of Dungeness crabs in Nehalem Bay have been frequently received by the Oregon Fish Commission. Popular opinion usually places the blame for the lack of legal-sized bay crabs in the Nehalem estuary upon the adjacent commercial crab fisheries, A...
"Prepared for the State/Federal Dungeness Crab Management Program. May 1974." "One of the initial objectives of the State/Federal Dungeness Crab Management Program is to evaluate crab mortality caused by certain fishery practices. The areas of most concern include mortality caused by trawling, handling of softshell and sublegal crabs, lost pots...
This report covers a 3-year period. It includes a growth survey of gaper clams to establish normal growth patterns, a summary of a transplantation of softshell clams into Siuslaw Bay, and the results of crab tagging to determine movement/migration patterns. This report also has research on personal-use fisheries for razor...