Van Oosten, John 



1928. Scientific investigations of Great 

 Lakes fisheries by the U.S. Bur- 

 eau of Fisheries. Second Great 

 Lakes Fish. Conf., Lansing, 

 Mich., Feb. 8, 1928, Mich. Dept. 

 Cons., pp. 16-20. 



Outline of controversial problems of 

 regulation in Lake Erie and descrip- 

 tion of the Service's experinnental 

 studies of net selectivity intended to 

 contribute toward the solution of 

 those problem s. 



1929. Some fisheries problems on the 

 Great Lakes. Trans. Am. Fish. 

 Soc, Vol. 59, pp. 63-85. 



Outline of problems and presentation 

 of preliminary data on: effects of 

 set -hook fishing on stocks of lake 

 trout and of chubs used for bait; 

 regulation of chub nets for protection 

 of both chubs and small lake trout; 

 protection of Saginaw Bay lake her- 

 ring; biological and limnological 

 studies; cooperative survey of Lake 

 Erie. 



1929. Life history of the lake herring 

 (Leucichthys artedi Le Sueur) of 

 Lake Huron as revealed by its 

 scales, with a critique of the scale 

 method. Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., 

 Vol. 44, pp. 265-428. 

 An inquiry into the validity of the 

 scale method and an application of 

 that method in a study of the life his- 

 tory of the lake herring (principally 

 the Saginaw Bay stock) of Lake Huron. 

 Critique includes an exhaustive re- 

 view and evaluation of die literature 

 and an appraisal of die author's own 

 findings on such fundamental questions 

 as: validity of the annulus as a year- 

 mark; time and factors of annulus 

 formation; body -scale relationship 

 and calculation of growth; possible 

 causes of Lee's pheonomenon and 

 other discrepancies of calculated 

 growth. Life -history study includes 

 consideration of: fluctuations in age 

 composition, size, and growth of the 

 Saginaw Bay lake herring and possible 



contributing factors; growth compensa- 

 tion; length-weight relationship; sex 

 ratio; differences between growth of 

 lake herring in Saginaw Bay and in 

 other regions of Lake Huron. 



1930. Progress of fishery biology on the 

 Great LaKes. hv. Progress in 

 biological inquiries, 192 8, by 

 Elmer Higgins. Rep. U.S. Comm . 

 Fish, for 1929, pp. 710-718. 

 Historical review of major limnolog- 

 ical, biological, and fishery surveys 

 of the Great Lakes by governmental 

 agencies and educational institutions. 

 Includes an outline of the Service re- 

 search program and comments on 

 problems of overfishing and fishery 

 regulations . 



1930. Investigation of method of measur- 

 ing twine in Great Lakes district. 

 Mich. Fisherman, Vol. 14, No. 4, 

 pp . 1 and 6 . 

 Review of troublesome points in the 

 controversial problem of measuring 

 mesh size, emphasizing the need for 

 a simple uniform procedure free from 

 personal bias and stating that the Serv- 

 ice has referred the matter to the 

 Bureau of Standards. 



1930. The disappearance of the Lake Erie 

 Cisco --a preliminary report. 

 Trans. Am. Fish. Soc, Vol. 60, 

 pp. 204-214. 

 Review of production statistics on the 

 Cisco fishery and explanation of the 

 collapse of the fishery in 1925 as the 

 result of overfishing with bull nets 

 (deep gill nets) in 1923 and 1924 when 

 abnormal weather conditions (heavy 

 storms) had concentrated the stocks 

 within a small area of deep water in 

 eastern Lake Erie. 



1932. 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 



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