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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1921-2003 | View Entire Issue (July 21, 1955)
8- C O O T T T T .T R V A T T R V C V V T i v r i T hursday, Ju ly 21, 1955 Rod And Gun Club Praise Given Myrtle Point Group For Annual Fish Salvage Project State Fisheries Director M. T. Hoy this week commended mem ly varied. In includes molluscs, bers of the Myrtle Point Rod and insects and their larvae, worms, Gun club who have carried on a crustaceans, fish, frogs and car salmon fingerling salvage program rion. In fact, they eat almost any in areas of the Coquille river thing that might be considered as where receding flood waters had edible. The Blue Catfish is some stranded the young fish in pot what migratory in its habits and holes. The work was begun at the its abundance at any one spot may time Colonel Going of Coos Bay vary considerably during the year. Blue Catfish are commonly tak was a member of the Fish Com en on trot lines, by jugging, or on mission two decades ago. baited lines Hooks size 2-o to Throughout the high water per 4/o may be baited with large iod this spring, Myrtle Point night crawlers or with minnows, sportsmen watched flooded sec particularly large chubs. Trot tions along the Coquille river for lines in Iowa are usually used with signs of trapped, ocean-bound sal- 25 to 100 hooks and are set at monoids. Fish sighted were seined right angles to the shore usually with nets and returned to the riv just downstream from islands. I er to move on downstream. Frank Commercial fishermen may take Smith, fish commission employee these superior catfish in seines. and former superintendent of the The flesh is excellent and finds a Coos river salmon hatchery, as ready market in the cities within sisted the sportsmen in their sal range of the fish. This catfish is vage efforts. considered by some as the most Hoy said annual losses of young valuable fish in the Mississippi salmon and steelhead due to River system. stranding in potholes are believed It is the hope of the National to be great in some cases. He Wildlife Federation that practices pointed out the potholing is only affecting this fish may be such one of the many dangers young that the supply may continue in salmonoids face during their fresh definitely and that its abundance water existence. may increase rather than decrease. ‘'Any project, regardless of — E. Laurence Palmer • • scope, which increases the chances for salmon survival in our coastal rivers is a step in the right direc tion,” Hoy emphasized. “ The Co quille salvage program is an ex cellent example of what can be Here’s welcome news to clam ' done by interested groups to accel diggers and crab pursuers. The j erate rehabilitation of our salmon Oregon fish commission announced runs.” this week that it has prepared a | synopsis of regulations governing ! the personal use taking of shell fish in Oregon. The synopsis lists seasons and | bag limits on bay and razor clam s,) crabs, crawfish, mussels, and I shrimp found along the Oregon coast. Through cooperation of the Oregon state game commission, copies of the shellfish regulation synopsis are being distributed to j angling and hunting license agen cies in western Oregon this week, | M. T. Hoy, state fisheries director I BLUE CATFISH stated. Hoy said the fish commis- [ ©1994 Nol.oool WIWNta sion has received numerous shell fish regulation inquiries in the ] BLUE CATFI8H past. Ictalurus furratus Copies of the synopsis will also I The Mississippi River and Its tributaries is the natural home of be available at fish commission [ the Blue Catfish. While it has research laboratories at Astoria, been introduced into the streams Bay City, Newport, and Charles- ( of Colorado it has not definitely ton; and at the Portland office of [ the fish commission, 307 State O f established itself there. Young fishermen who thrill at fice building. • • the capture of a bullhead a few inches long would find themselves in difficulty should they hook on W O R D S J to one of these giant relatives of the bullhead. Blue Cattish weigh ¡ 3 THO U G HTS ing to 180 pounds and measuring in excess of five feet have been taken but animals of this size are M’ mmm ... something - unusual. It is not too uncommon SORE SMELLS GOOP in suitable water however to take these fish weighing to 50 pounds. The Blue Catfish might possibly excusably be confused with the better known Channel Catfish. Each has a deeply forked tail. In the Blue Catfish, the anal fin that lies to the rear along the under side of the body has from 32 to 35 rays while in the Channel Catfish this fin has from 25 to 30 rays. The free end of this fin in the Channel Catfish is rounded, not pointed. The eye of the Blue Catfish is fací it nearer the under margin of the head than to the upper while In the Channel Catfish this is re versed. The eyes too are smaller in the Blue Catfish than in the Channel Catfish. Large male, breeding Channel Catfish closely resemble the Blue Catfish. As the name implies, the Blue Catfish is blue to slate-col ored above changing to silvery and to white beneath. The edges of the fins, particularly of the anal fins are frequently darker than the other portions. Blue Catfish breed in June or July when the water reaches a temperature of 70 to 75 degrees F A nest is made in an excavation under a protecting shelf of some sort. The eggs appear in gelatinous masses and a fish weighing two pounds may lay about 5,000 eggs. In from 6 to 10 days, the eggs hatch. By the end of the first sum mer, the young fish may be to 4 inches long but sexual maturity is not reached until about 4 years when the fish may have a length “Knowing what’s none of of 12 to 15 inches. Young fish may your business is just as impor be spotted. tant as knowing what iaf" The food of Blue Catfish is high-«1 State Issues Rules For Shellfish w ,,. HERE IS OUR GUARANTEE TO YOU Safeway's long-standing guarantee of complete satisfaction applies to every item Safeway sells. Yes, groceries, meats and produce. Should any purchase you make at Safeway fail to please in any way . . . your money back. Franco-American Spaghetti, 15 3-4 oz. can Libby Roast Beef, 12-oz. c a n ............. Frey Bentos Corned Beef, 12-oz. can . . Blue Piafe Cove Oysters, 4 3-4-oz. can . Windlass Oysfers, Cove, 4 2-3 oz. can . . Sea Trader Chunk Tuna, 1-2 can, 4 for . . 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