OREGON 



State Game Commission 



1. Public Access to Fishing Areas. 



The project objective is to establish through acquisition or agreement and 

 development the perpetual right and means of public access to fishing areas. 



Statewide; began January 1953, to close December 1953; $4, 680. 



Address inquiries to: A. V. Meyers, Oregon State Game Commission, 

 1634 Southwest Alder, P. O. Box 4136, Portland, Oreg. 



2. Deschutes River Public Fishing Area. (FA: F-5-L) 



Objectives of the project are to provide through acquisition and development, 

 public access to 21 miles of inaccessible, highly productive, trout, salmon, and 

 steelhead strearn. 



Sherman County; began June 1953, to close June 1955; $5,250. 



Address inquiries to: A. V. Meyers, as in No. 1 above. 



3. Diamond Lake Fishery Rehabilitation. (FA: F-4-D) 



The 3,000-acre Diamond Lake, an excellent rainbow trout habitat, has 

 become so heavily infested with Klamath Lake roach that trout reproduction is 

 practically nil. It is planned to remove the trash fish with rotenone and restock 

 with trout. Legislation and fishing regulations have been firmed up as an attempt 

 to prevent reinfestation. 



Douglas County; began June 1953, to close June 1955; Total cost - $126,786; 

 John Dimick, Leader. 



Address inquiries to: A. V. Meyers, as in No. 1 above. 



Fish Commission 



1. Coastal Salmon Studies. 



A stream inventory and watershed improvement program is being carried 

 out. Studies of the intensity of the various coastal salmon fisheries are contin- 

 uing. The relationship between the number of spawning salmon and the result- 

 ing progeny is being determined. A study of the natural food supply available 

 to silver salmon throughout the year is being made. 



Coastal Streams; continuing; Kenneth A. Henry, Leader; reports available. 



Address inquiries to: Kenneth A. Henry, Oregon Fish Commission, Box 226, 

 Bay City, Oreg. 



2. Hatchery Biology. 



A project to determine best methods of developing suitable hatchery foods, 

 holding requirements of spring chinook salmon, and the relationship between 

 time and size in release of hatchery fish and their survival. 



Coastal Rivers and Lower Columbia River tributaries; continuing; Thomas B. 

 McKee, Leader; reports available. 



Address inquiries to: Thomas B. McKee, Oregon Fish Commission, Route 1, 

 Box 263B, Sandy, Oreg. 



3. Problems of Fishway Passage at Dams. 



Two studies are being carried out through contracts with the U. S. Army, 

 Corps of Engineers, and are a part of the Corps of Engineers' research program 

 on problems of fish passage at dams in the Columbia River. One of the current 

 projects is concerned with the planning of delay and mortality studies of salmon 

 and steelhead at Columbia River dams. The other consists of the enumeration 

 of salmon and steelhead in various sections of the Columbia River Basin. 



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