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Harvesting clams with mechanical gear

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Title Harvesting clams with mechanical gear
Names McCrae, Jean (creator)
Oregon. Dept. of Fish and Wildlife. Marine Resources Program (creator)
Date Issued 2002 (iso8601)
Note "Members of the clam harvesting industry have been requesting for several year[s] to allow the use of mechanical gear to harvest bay clams. Presently, harvest is limited to hand methods. . . The purpose of this report is to summarize the use of mechanical gear in the past in Oregon and currently in other areas and to outline our method of establishing quotas to allow the use of mechanical gear on an experimental basis." (From the Introduction) Includes statistics and suggested harvest quotas for Coos and Tillamook Bays.
Genre Technical Report
Topic Clamming -- Oregon
Identifier http://hdl.handle.net/1957/25060

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