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localities on the coast of that State. A complete restoration of 

 this important food molhisk is not impossible during the next few 

 years. Successful transplantings of the razor clam from Clatsop 

 County beaches to other points on the coast, made in 1918, were 

 not wholly responsible for the reappearance of the species the fol- 

 lowing year, as it appeared on beaches other than those where plant- 

 ings were made. 



10. Information gained relative to the spawning seasons of certain 

 food clams as Mya arenaria^ SUiqua patula^ SoMzothaerus nuttalli, 

 Paphya staminea^ etc., may be valuable in the future should it be 

 deemed wise to place restrictions upon the taking of the species. 



tl. Oyster culture has been an important industry in the North- 

 west for many years, especially in the waters of Puget Sound and 

 Willapa Bay in Washington. In Oregon the industry, although 

 of considerable importance, has never reached the proportions that 

 it has north of the Columbia Eiver. The success of recent plantings 

 of the western oyster in Coos Bay gives promise of the development 

 of this industry on a larger scale than heretofore in the State of 

 Oregon. 



12. Several species of pectens are known to exist in considerable 

 quantities in certain parts of Puget Sound, namely, about San Juan 

 Island. Whether or not species of pectens are sufficiently abundant 

 off the northwest coast, other than in Puget Sound, to make them 

 of commercial value has not yet been determined. 



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