This report contains additional information on improvements of the Siletz River Bar. It includes information on nearby tributaries, as well as the growing annual yield of timber from the area and potential related commerce such as the Oregon Pulp and Paper Company.
The report consists of notes of a conversation between Lowell D. Marriage of the Oregon Fish Commission and Jess Hayes, an oyster grower from Bay City, regarding Mr. Hayes' recollections of the history of Pacific oyster culture in Tillamook Bay. Mr. Hayes' account goes back to 1931 and gives estimated...
"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...
A survey was made on this date for the purpose of ascertaining whether or not log jams in the Elk City region of the Yaquina River and Elk River (Yaquina River tributary) were a serious menace to the passage of salmon.
This is a staff statement for a hearing of the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission. The document addresses problems associated with commercial clamming. Some commercial diggers were not selling harvests as required by law, were not properly reporting harvests, and were not paying State fees. Some commercial diggers were taking...
This is an exhibit made by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife before a meeting of the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission. The report addresses the need for a "destruct device" to stop lost crab pots from continuing to fish. Today, Oregon crab pots must use biodegradable twine in...
An innovative attempt to fish for crabs with helicopters in early 1977 upset some traditional crab fishers, who "claimed that prolonged flight at high speeds would cause delayed mortalities in crabs that were returned to the water. A study was done November 3-December 1 to provide insight into that claim....
This is an Oregon Dept. of Fish and Wildlife internal discussion paper addressing a proposed rule change to allow the taking of female Dungeness crabs. Includes statistics of male and female crab take for Alsea Bay and meat yield from female crabs in Alsea Bay. The proposed change did not...
This report summarizes the results of our bay clam studies in 1985. Activities summarized include monitoring of the recreational and commercial clam fisheries, hatchery stock enhancement studies, natural recruitment studies, and miscellaneous other projects.