This report discusses public interaction with personal-use fisheries. It also discusses reasons for razor clam violations and means taken to try and decrease them. Finally, it gives the total harvest and age composition data, and contains the results of a survey of clam diggers on Clatsop County beaches for 1965.
In 1967, Oregon State University applied to the Bureau of State Lands for a 10-year lease on 153 acres of tideland in Netarts Bay, in order to conduct research on shellfish. A change in state law in 1970 invalidated the old terms of the lease. The University decided to request...
The State Police in Astoria informed the Fish Commission on October 12, 1970, that some 100 crab pots were in the ocean in 3-10 fathoms of water near Cannon Beach. This is about 23 miles south of the Columbia River within the 3-mile limit. According to one local crab fisherman,...
Clams dug by razor clam diggers were sampled from March through September. The sampling day and area were selected randomly according to a method suggested by our statistician. The number of clam digger trips and the number and age of the clams were noted for the personal use and commercial...
"Striped bass (Morone saxatilis) were tagged on the Umpqua and Smith rivers (Figure 1) to estimate the numbers of bass recruited to the commercial fishery and to gather information on migration habits of bass in these rivers. Small numbers of striped bass were tagged in the summers of 1971 and...
"This information report provides an updated summary of all coastal shad tagging studies conducted by the Fish Commission. I believe these studies represent the only shad tagged in Oregon coastal streams south of the Columbia River. No new field work is reported. My intent is to tabulate, consolidate, update, and...
Razor clams were sampled from March through September. Due to lack of help, work was confined to Clatsop County beaches. The sport and commercial catches were sampled for numbers and age composition of the clams harvested and the distribution and numbers of diggers. The summer clam closure and sampling program...
"We monitored oyster mortality in Yaquina, Coos, and Tillamook bays from July 1966-March 1972. Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas) mortality in Yaquina Bay appears to be lower than in any other reporting area on the Pacific Coast, generally less than 2% per year. Native oyster (Ostrea lurida) mortality ranged from 9.6-28.2%....