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Status of the lake trout fishery in Lake Superior Status of the lake trout fishery in Lake Superior

The production of lake trout in the United States waters of Lake Superior was low (only 1,465,000 pounds) in 1879, the first year for which there is a record. Expansion of the fishery must have started soon thereafter, for the take was 3,488,000 pounds in 1885, the next year for which we have statistics, and averaged 3,416,000 pounds in 1885–1892. The years after 1892 can be divided...
Authors
Ralph Hile, Paul H. Eschmeyer, George F. Lunger

Downstream movement of recently transformed sea lampreys, Petromyzon marinus, in Carp Lake River, Michigan Downstream movement of recently transformed sea lampreys, Petromyzon marinus, in Carp Lake River, Michigan

In order to obtain more precise information concerning the downstream movement of recently transformed sea lampreys, a trapping device was operated in the Carp Lake River, Emmet County, Michigan, from October, 1948, to July, 1951. The period of downstream migration typically extends from the latter part of October to the middle of April. It varies, however, from year to year with...
Authors
Vernon C. Applegate, Clifford L. Brynildson

A nomograph for the computation of the growth of fish from scale measurements A nomograph for the computation of the growth of fish from scale measurements

Directions are given for the construction and operation of a nomograph that can be employed for the computation of the growth of fish from scale measurements regardless of the nature of the body-scale relationship, so long as that relationship is known. The essential feature of the nomograph that makes rapid calculations possible is a ruler on which the graduations are in terms of length...
Authors
Ralph Hile

Sea lamprey control Sea lamprey control

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Authors
James W. Moffett

A definition of depletion of fish stocks A definition of depletion of fish stocks

Attention was focused on the need of a common and better understanding of the term depletion as applied to the fisheries in order to eliminate if possible the existing inexactness of thought on the subject. Depletion has been confused at various times with at least ten different ideas associated with it but which, as has has heen pointed out, are not synonymous at all. In defining...
Authors
John Van Oosten
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