Van Oosten^ John, Ralph Hile, and Frank W. Jobes 



I9I16. The whitefish fishery of Lakes Huron and Michigan with 

 special reference to the deep-trap-net fishery. Fish, 

 Bull. J Fish and Wildlife Serv., Vol, ^0, pp, 297-39ii, 



Review of statistics on production of whitefish in all 

 waters of Lakes Michigan and Huron, beginning with 1879, and 

 a detailed consideration of annual fluctuations of production, 

 abundance, and fishing intensity in local districts of the 

 State of Michigan waters of the two lakes, beginning with 1929, 

 to bring out the disastrous effects of the deep trap net on 

 whitefish stocks in those districts in which the gear was 

 fished intensively. Includes sections on bathymetric distri- 

 bution and seasonal movements of whitefish, lake trout, wall- 

 eyes, burbot, and suckers, and on the fishing action of pound 

 nets and deep trap nets (relation of mesh size to number and 

 sizes of fish taken; gilling and bloating of live fish at 

 lifting; numbers of dead fish in nets; estimates of total 

 numbers of undersized fish destroyed). 



Van Oosten, John, F. A. Westerman, W, C, Adams, and W. L, Finley 



1939o Migratory fish, a problem of interstate cooperation? 

 Trans. Hh N. Am. I-dldlife Conf., pp. 25-h3. 



Panel discussion concerned principally with Great 

 Lakes problems. Includes comments on the progressive de- 

 pletion in the various lakes and the great difficulty of 

 coping with the problem under the current system of divided 

 control. 



Westerman, Fred A., and John Van Oosten 



1939. Report to the Michigan State Senate on the fisheries of 

 Potagannissing Bay, Michigan. Mich. Dept. Cons., 82 pp. 



Report on study conducted in response to pressure from 

 sport fishermen for abolition of commercial fishing in the bay. 

 Observations on the commercial f ishery^ -tagging experiment on 

 black bass, analysis of commercial fishery statistics, and 

 creel-census records, •• 'proved the contentions of sport fisher- 

 men concerning damage to angling from commercial operations to 

 be invalid. Continuance of commercial fishing was recommended 

 as desirable in this basically rough- fish water. Elimination 

 of nets from one small area about 3 months each summer was the 

 only change of regulation suggested. 



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