PREFACE 



This report provides base-line and food-chain data on the invertebrate and 

 fish fauna of several marsh habitats located in Siletz and Netarts Bays, Oregon. 

 The study, sponsored by the U.S. Army Coastal Engineering Research Center (CERC) 

 under CERC Contract No. DACW72-77-C-0013, evaluates the trophic value of Pacific 

 coast salt marshes to provide information for assessing the impact of Corps of 

 Engineers projects on these resources in the bay areas and in other marshland 

 along the Oregon coast. Results and conclusions presented here are those of 

 the authors and are not necessarily accepted by CERC or the Corps of Engineers. 



The report was prepared by Duane L. Higley, Research Assistant, and Dr. 

 Robert L. Holton, Assistant Professor of Oceanography, School of Oceanography, 

 Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, with the assistance of the following 

 members of the staff of the School of Oceanography, Oregon State University: 

 K, Chalopka, K. Jones, J. Morgan, J. Shaffer, and F. Stilwell. In addition, 

 several students in the College Work Study Program worked on the project. 



Assistance in identifying animals and trophic types was provided by Drs. 

 G. Ferguson, J. Latin, and G. Krantz, and T. Dudley, B. Frost, and G. Peters 

 of the Department of Entomology; and by Dr. C. Baynes of the Department of 

 Zoology at Oregon State University. 



R.M. Yancey and A.K. Hurme were the CERC contract monitors for the report, 

 under the general supervision of E.J. Pullen, Chief, Coastal Ecology Branch, 

 Research Division. 



Comments on this publication are invited. 



Approved for publication in accordance with Public Law 166, 79th Congress, 

 approved 31 July 1945, as supplemented by Public Law 172, 88th Congress, 

 approved 7 November 1963. 



ID E. BISHOP 

 Colonel, Corps of Engineers 

 Commander and Director 



