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About Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978 | View Entire Issue (April 30, 1953)
Tagging fish has indicated th at there is no m ajor m igration move THURSDAY, A PR IL 30, 1953 m ent. The fish m ay be found in brackish w aters as well as in salt w ater. On he west coast in the Pacific the ' Striped M ullet is Team standings April 16 found from M onterey to Chile. I iy E . L aurenck P almer W L The S triped Mullet is on of the H E FISH figured here is the 14 m ullet group th a t congregates in P ete Lesm eister ....... 34 S triped Mullet which is a close 17L relativ e of the W hite Mullet, the huge schools. It is closely re la t F reem an’s M arket .... a o tt ed to the Silversides. 19» Tots, Teens, M incer’s 2 8 1 ft F an -tail M ullet and the Brazilian K err H dw..................... 22 28 The Striped M ullet is one of M ullet Of these the Fan-tail and 24 B razilian M ullets may be consid the larger m ullets. It may reacn Don’s Cliff House .... 2 J Sisco Loggerettes .... 28 23 ered more southern than the a weight in excess of 5 pounds Chetco Cafe 35 13 S triped and the W hite. The W hite and a length of 2 feet. It is dark 35 M ullet is rare north of New York blue above, has silver sides fad Eagles A ux................... 13 though it has been taken as far ing to w hite or pale yellow on YEARLY HIGH GAMES the under sides. There are showy as Maine. Individual games The Striped M ullet has the rep- tlark stripes along the sides and L arrie Peterson ................... 214 these of course help distinguish Clara Goyke ......................... 205 the species from the related K atie Hall ............................. 196 W hite Mullet. Dana Baird ........................... 196 When m ullet form schools in Individual series M ¿A»* shallow w aters they frequently C lara Goyke .......................... 521 jum p into the a rir m aking it easy L arrie Peterson ................... 504 for the school to be located by Verna Crabb ............................ 491 fishermen. Fisherm en usually Team games take Striped M ullet with seines Chetco Cafe ............................ 892 either set when a tide is in to Pete Lesm eister Ins............... 881 capture the outgoing fish or set Don’s Cliff House .................. 862 Mullet around a milling school of fish. Team series 01*91 Nolfe«.l Wildlife fe<fer«*fe« Some m ullet m ay escape a seine Pete Lesm eister Ins............. 2515 set for them by leaping over the Don’s Cliff House ............... 2468 u tatio n in the New York latitude cork line but m any are t^ken. In Sisco Iz)ggerettes ............... 2462 of hibernating during the w inter spite of this wholesale m ethod of Ten High Average m onths. We do not presum e to taking the fish over m any years Clara Goyke ............................ 152 pass judgm ent on this statem ent. the supply seems to rem ain ap Katie Hall .............................. 144, T he southern limit if the range proxim ately the same. This m ay Verna Crabb ............................ 142 | in the A tlantic is Brazil w ith be due to the enorm ous recupera- Rickey H aggerty ................ 134 the greatest concentration off tive power of the fish. ' Dana Baird ......... Z Z Z I 132 Florida and the Gulf of Mexico. In the Florida area, spaw ning Audrey Keen ......................... 126 takes place in shallow w ater over Cleo Rogers 125 sandy bottom s from D ecem ber E rsa F isher 124 through February. Som etim es i Yolande Vaughn 123 1 eggs may be laid over rocky bot K athy K arns .......................... 121 toms th at lie to a depth of over HIGH GAMES A PRIL 16 20 feet. In the spawning act a Ind. gam e: Dana Baird, 196; single fem ale is usually surround ed by a num ber of m ales all of Ind. series: Verna Crabb, 483; PLANER ENDS whom are usualy sm aller than Team gam e: Tots to Teens & the female. No parental care is Mincers. 843; Team series, Chetco Cafe, 2383. given the eggs or young. S triped Mullet feed freely on Easy S tre e t \eg etab le m atte r, some of it ta k tract of the m ud eaters. en from muds. The fish has the | M ullets are of considerable characteristically long intestinal food value for m an and provide one of the most popular and suc cessful baits for the larger game fishes of the seas. The size of the m ullet used depends in part on the fish sought by the angler. M ullets are commonly cut up for Wiring Contractor—Appliance Repair use as bait. So valuable is this species th at extensive studies are being made RE SID E N TIA L — IN D U ST R IA L to assure th at the supply contin ues. The N ational Wildlife Fed eration has sponsored many s tu dies designed to protect different P h o a e 2944 P.O. Box 337, Brookings. Ore. forms of wildlife. 6 Brookings Harbor Pilot Beaverettes B o w lin g Score MULLET T Everyone believes very easilv Civil defense films can be bor rowed from the Visual Instruc w hatever he fears or desires — tion departm ent at Oregon S tate Jean de La Fontaine. The mind is not moved by that College, Corvallis. which it docs not believe.—Bov In the recent war. 80 per cent leau. of the damage to all buildings He does not believe that does bombed from the air was caused not live according to his belief.-- Thomas Fuller. by fire. MACK G. 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