FISHERY BULLETIN: VOL. 87, NO. 3, 1989 



J.ickson 

 Crcok 



Figure 1. — Netarts Bay with locations of high tide (open) and low tide (solid) 

 seine stations and the tow net stations (triangle). 



Kreag 1979). The watershed area is small (about 

 36 km^), and its only tributaries are small 

 creeks. Whiskey Creek, the site of the Oregon 

 State University experimental hatchery for 

 rearing chum salmon (Lannan 1975), and Jack- 

 son Creek are the two largest streams that drain 

 into Netarts Bay and are the major spawning 

 habitats for chum salmon in Netarts Bay. Be- 

 sides cutthroat trout, only a few rainbow (steel- 

 head) trout and coho salmon were found in 

 Whiskey or Jackson Creek. 



METHODS 



The contribution of naturally spawned chum 

 fry to Netarts Bay and the timing of their out- 

 migi'ation were estimated from samples of chum 

 salmon fry captured in a fyke net, located in 

 Whiskey Creek about 100 m from the bay at 

 MHW, from late March to early May 1984, and 

 from late February through late May 1985 and 

 1986. The net, which was used for 35, 51, and 53 

 days in 1984, 1985, and 1986, respectively, was 



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