1954. Status and future of the American 

 Fisheries Society. Trans. Am. 

 Fish. Soc, Vol. 83(1953), pp. 

 357-359. 



Presidential address at eighty-third 

 annual m eeting urging: a more dem - 

 ocratic organization, the wielding of 

 greater influence in fishery matters 

 of general public concern; the ending 

 of the trend toward superficiality in 

 research. 



1955. The walleye problem in Green 

 Bay. Prog. Fish. -Cult ., Vol. 17, 

 No. 1, p. 44. 



Review of the consequences of the 

 phenomenal strength of the 1943 year 

 class- -enormous increases of pro- 

 duction and fishing pressure, frictions 

 among groups of commercial oper- 

 ators and between commercial and 

 sport fishermen, and use of scientific 

 inform.ation on walleyes in preventing 

 passage of unwise restrictive 

 legislation. 



Hile, Ralph, and Howard J. Buettner 



1955. Commercial fishery for chubs 



(ciscoes) in Lake Michigan through 

 1953 . Fish and Wildlife Serv . , 

 Spec. Sci. Rep. --Fish. No. 163, 

 9 pp. 

 Historical review of a fishery based 

 on seven deep-water species of 

 coregonids. Includes the fragmentary 

 and scattered statistics of 1890 1925, 

 the continuous and more dependable 

 catch statistics of 1926-1954, and 

 data on catch, fishing intensity, and 

 abundance in local areas for Michigan 

 (1929-1954), Wisconsin (1953-1954), 

 and Illinois (1950-1954). Discusses: 

 biasing effects of changes in fishing 

 laws and of types of gill -net twine 

 (linen, cotton, nylon) on estimation 

 of abundance; comments on deteriora- 

 tion of the fishery resulting from the 

 end of lake trout predation on small 

 chubs, the attacks of sea lampreys on 

 large chubs, and the large increase 

 in fishing intensity. Data for 1954 in 

 an appendix . 



Hile, Ralph, and Hilary J. Dea son 



1934. Growth of i j whitefish, Coregonus 

 clupeaformis (Mitchill), in Trout 

 Lake, northeastern highlands, 

 Wisconsin. Trans. Am. Fish. 

 Soc, Vol. 64, pp. 231-237. 

 Description of growth of a "dwarf" 

 population of whitefish and a compar- 

 ison with growth in other waters. 



1947. Distribution, abundance, and 



spawning season and grounds of 

 the kiyi, Leucichthys kiyi Koelz, 

 in Lake Michigan. Trans. Am. 

 Fish. Soc, Vol. 74(1944), pp. 

 143-165. 

 Analysis of catch data from experi- 

 mental gill nets for records of 

 geographic distribution and study of 

 vertical distribution and regional 

 abundance. Kiyi established as deep- 

 water form taken in numbers in less 

 than 50 fathoms only at times of un- 

 usual hydrographic disturbances. 

 Abundance determined to be nearly 

 uniform throughout great central 

 basins, but species found to be scarce 

 in nortlieastern island area. Spawning- 

 run samples indicated no movement 

 toward inshore waters and a spawning 

 season extending from late September 

 to mid-November or later. 



Hile, Ralph, and William R. Duden 



1933. Methods for the investigation of the 

 statistics of the commercial fish- 

 eries of the Great Lakes. Trans. 

 Am. Fish. Soc, Vol.63, pp. 292-305. 

 Account of tentative procedures for 

 compilation and analysis of commercial 

 fishery statistics. Includes a defini- 

 tion of "effective fishing effort" for 

 use in fisheries based on a variety of 

 species . 



Hile, Ralph, Paul H. Eschmeyer, and George 

 F . Lunger 

 1951. Decline of the lake trout fishery in 

 Lake Michigan. Fish. Bull., 

 Fish and Wildlife Serv., Vol. 52, 

 pp. 77-95. 

 Statistical study of the lake trout 



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