OHIO (Cont. ) 



9. Improving Facilities at State-owned and Controlled Lakes. 



The project provides for the construction and maintenance of access roads, 

 parking areas, wells, toilets, boat ramps, deep shoreline channels, posters, 

 and fishing piers. Lowering of the lakes, drainage, or restocking is carried 

 out as required. Several projects include marking logs, stumps, and snags to 

 make them more useful to the angler. 



Statewide; continuing; Robert Cumnr^ins, Clarence F. Clark, Daniel C. 

 Armbruster, Mark O. White, Ray Riethmiller, John D. Walker, Leaders; 

 reports available. 



Address inquiries to: E. L. Wickliff, as in No. 1 above. 



10. Effects of Land Use Improvement on Streann Fisheries. (FA: F-l-R) 



This project, located in southwestern Ohio, is set up to study and apply the 

 best known techniques for land use in the Little Miami River drainage area. The 

 objective being to basically tie down the soil and try to control streann flow, 

 thereby affording more fishing days and increasing the range for desirable stream 

 species. 



Little Miami River in Clark and Greene Counties; began May 1, 1952, con- 

 tinuing; Paul V. Shafer, Leader; reports available. 



Address inquiries to: E. L. Wickliff, as in No. 1 above. 



11. Raccoon Creek Development. 



Effort is being made to clear up the Raccoon Creek systenn of the acid wastes 

 from coal mines which is the factor limiting fish production. This stream has a 

 drainage area of 684 square miles. 



Raccoon Creek in southeastern Ohio; began 1952, indefinite; Vernon W. Cole, 

 Leader; reports available. 



Address inquiries to: E. L. Wickliff, as in No. 1 above. 



12. Lake St. Marys Rough Fish Removal. (FA: F-2-R) 



The objective of the project is to determine the effect of removal of rough 

 fish on game species in this 11, 000-acre lake. The fish are rennoved mainly by 

 seines. 



Lake St. Marys in Auglaize and Mercer Counties; began 1953, continuing; 

 William M. Zarbock, Leader. 



Address inquiries to: E. L. Wickliff, as in No. 1 above. 



13. Mapping State-owned and State Controlled Fishing Lakes. 



Mapping of State lakes is under way. Maps are 15" long and 10" wide, and 

 show contours, facilities for fishermen, location, fish populations of interest 

 to anglers, methods of fishing and best fishing sites, stocking, fish managennent 

 activities, recreational facilities, descriptive history and ownership of lake. At 

 present a depth sounder is used for locating contours. 



Statewide; began 1952, continuing; Robert Cunrunins, Clarence F. Clark, 

 Daniel C. Armbruster Mark O. White, Ray Riethmiller, John D. Walker, 

 Leaders; maps are available. 



Address inquiries to: E. L. Wickliff, as in No. 1 above. 



14. Lake Erie Fish Tagging and Size of Mesh for Trap Nets. 



Hook and line commercial species of fish are tagged to ascertain where 

 fish caught in Ohio come from and where they go. Experimental trap nets of 

 different sizes of mesh are operated to determine the sizes of mesh for differ- 

 ent parts of the net that are required to retain fish of legal length or weight. 



Western end of Lake Erie; began 1953, continuing; Robert Cummins, Leader; 

 reports available. 



Address inquiries to: E. L. Wickliff, as in No. 1 above. 



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