Van Oosten, John (continued) 



1932o Experiments on the mesh of trapnets and legislation 

 of the commercial fisheries of Lake Erie, Trans, 

 Am. Fish, Soc., Vol, 62, pp, 100-107. 



Description of experimental design and presentation of 

 selected data to show type of results from studies of relation 

 of mesh size to release of undersized fish and catch of legal- 

 sized fish of several species. Recommendations are given on 

 legal specifications for trap-net meshes. 



1932, Experiments on the mesh of trapnets on Lake Erie. The 

 Fisherman, Vol. 1, No, 12, pp. 3-l| and 8. 



Summary of article published under similar title in same 

 year in Transactions of the American Fisheries Society. 



1932. Review of Great Lakes work conducted by the U. S. Bureau 



of Fisheries, The Fisherman, Vol. 2, No, 1, pp. 3-U and 8. 



Review of 1927-1932 activities with emphasis on the prac- 

 tical nature of the program and with particular reference to 

 fishery and limnological studies on Lake Erie, experimental 

 chub-net fishing on Lake Michigan, and research on the deep 

 trap net in Lakes Huron and Michigan. 



1932, The maximum age of fresh-water fishes. The Fisherman, 

 Vol, 1, No. 11, pp, 3-U. 



List of maximum ages, from artificial rearing or examina- 

 tion of scales or other bony structures, for UU species, drawn 

 from the literature or based on studies of Great Lakes staff. 



1933o Recent developments in commercial fishing industry. 

 (Report of the Division of Commercial Fishing of the 

 American Fisheries Society) Trans, Am, Fish. Soc, 

 Vol, 63, pp. 31-35. 



Review of developments, with special reference to the 

 Great Lakes, in such matters as regulations and technical ad- 

 vances in gear, boats, processing, transportation, marketing, 

 and the collection and analysis of statistics. 



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