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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 11, 1959)
Operations Chief Reports on Fishery Terming the steelhead "prob. ably the most important fish" and calling the rainbow trout the "workhorse," Dr. H. J. Rayner, Portland, discussed "how the wind is blowing" in the Oregon game commission fish program in a talk Mon day night to members of the Jackson County chapter of the Izaak Walton league. Dr. Rayner, chief of opera tions of the game commis sion's fishery division,, told the group that the department likes to put its major stocking efforts in lakes and reservoirs "because that is the cheapest way we can spend your mon ey." Mentioning accusations that the commission is not in favor of warm water fish, he declared that this is "not true." Addressing the regular monthly session of the Wal tonians at Medford Gun club, the fishery chief said that his division is still hoping it can get at the answer on the propagation of steelhead and salmon. He pointed out that the steelhead, as of now, is not adapted to hatchery con ditions and there is not the return that is wanted but that the idea is not being thrown "out the window." The divi sion is doing some artificial propagation, he reported, and . the first rearing pond in the anadromous fish rearing pro gram will be set aside for steelhead. Experimental. Stocking Rayner stated that the sum mer steelhead is "probably the best we have" and that those which pass over Gold Ray dam are probably the best in the Rogue since they are the biggest and have been in the river the longest time. No one knows what makes a summer steelhead, he said. The fishery man said that the winter steelhead are in better shape. It was found only last year where the steelhead were in the ocean, he reported. He added that they don't come back to us as they should. The . game commission is stocking salmon just for ex perimental purposes, Dr. Ray ner informed the Waltonians. He said that salmon hatchery operations are being found to be a tremendous burden and with silvers actually detri mental. Salmon stocking in the Rogue amounts to 50,000 a year, he reported. r Nature does a better job in propagating salmon, the fish ery chief maintained. This is not saying, he stated, - that hatcheries are not the answer, it's only saying that fishery men do not yet know how to use them. "I think that the rearing pond idea is the near est we've come to the an swer," Raymer answered. Budget Slash Huits Then, the game commis sion man pointed out that this pond program has been hit by the $2,237,739 cut that the state department of finance and administration has made from the game commission's budget. The commission has budgeted $350,000 for im poundment, construction and rearing of an anadromous fish. Rayner stressed to the sportsmen that "you are the ones to suffer" from the budg et slash unless the amount is restored. "We would be test ing the rearing pond idea which would provide you some fish you need." Rayner indicated the role of the rainbow trout as a fish for the average angler. Asked why no eastern brook trout had been planted in Fish lake after the -1951 rehabilitation operation, the fishery chief turned the question over to Cole Rivers, fish biologist and department field man in this area. Rivers answered that the rainbow policy was because of the much higher return to the angler. He spoke of the brookie, however as a desir able fish, 'ine biologist said that the comeback of that trout, from those which es caped poisoning, shows that it can fill a gap. Combining rain bow and eastern brook in the lake is being considered. Riv ers reported. Browns are Cagey It was further reported that eastern brook in high lakes have a tendency to become overstocked and limits were raised as a measure of cut ting down the population. If this section of river was right for brown trout, they would be here by now from a planting long ago up the river, Rayner brought out. They are not in this part of the stream because of the warmer water temperature, he said. He stated that browns lack the diversification of rainbow. Browns are wonderful fish "if you can catch them" but a tremendous population is needed before they can be caught in numbers, Rayner told the Waltonians. He men tioned their "cagey ability to withstand the hook", and list ed them mostly as a fly fish erman's trout. Key Stream Planting Concerning the commis sion's desire to put the major stocking efforts in lakes and reservoirs, Rayner reported that rivers just do not return percentage of fish that lakes do. He spoke of the program of planting trout in key stream areas where anglers can get at the fish. He said that there have to be a good number of fish in the stream! before angling. gets good and that a great many more fish than are going to be caught must be stocked. Kamloops trout were stock ed at Diamond lake because "a wild creature" was want ed and fishery men were con vinced that it had a bit more moxie on the end of a rod than the regular rainbow, ac cording to Rayner. Cutthroat trout are unique in that they can "fill so many HOW MUCH DOES IT COST TO WEEP U.S. GOLF COURSES GKEEN ? There are over one half million acres of grass on the golf courses of the United .States, and it costs one hundred aid six million dollars annually to keep them green, TOP THIS! To ny reader submitting contrary proof. Tip Brady will send a siened, wallet-sized diploma. Write to: BEAT THIS, co this paper. Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. Enclose self -addressed, stamped envelope. f FIGHTS Oakland, Calif. (UPI) Johnny uonsaives, ua, uaKiana, aecisionea Paddy DeMarco, 141, Brooklyn, N.Y. (10). Sacramento, Calif. (UPI) Or lando Zulueta, 136, Cuba, de cisioned Joey Lopes, 0.36, Sacra- menio uu). Honolulu (UPI) Tombstone Smith, ISO. los Angeles, outpointed Stan Harrington, 149, Honolulu (10). holes" in the Oregon fishery but their environment is first to be hurt by disturbances of industry, such as logging, the fishery chief pointed out. Cut throat must spawn in small streams. Loggers are good people, Rayner asserted; He told of the need to get next to them and explain that there are two resources and there is no reason why the two can't get along. Discover Salmon Rayner emphasized that his department is not trying to eliminate warm water fish but is trying to keep .their population in check and to in crease their size. There is a great demand from new peo ple in the state for the. type of warm water fishing like that where they came from, then these people suddenly discover the salmon, Rayner said. He mentioned that Ore gonians generally are for the salmon and trout and forget the warm water fish. The speaker remarked that the warm water species have a very high reproductive po tential and that there are not enough anglers to catch these fish and keep their population at a desirable level. Rayner reported that the channel catfish promises to be one of the most successful animals brought into Oregon streams. It was introduced in the Snake. Bullhead catfish are doing too well and are "our big problem," the fish ery man said, telling of their small size because of being overcrowded. Waltonians Want Guarantees Before Rogue River Waters Used for Industry Purposes Resolutions asking that statutory restrictions prevent ing industrial use of Rogue river waters be kept in force and seeking restoration of funds in the Oregon game commission budget were ap proved at a Monday meeting by members of the Jackson County chapter of the Izaak Walton league. The Oregon state water re sources board has' recom mended that the limitations SPORTS Nut Buster Team Wins Trap Tiff John Deaver's Nut Busters tallied 18Vi points Sunday and wound up as champions with 102 points in the team trapshoot tournament at Med ford Gun club. Loyd Langston's Meat Balls were second with 95. Jack Porter's Knot Hole Pluggers had 68V4,. Ray Coleman's Nail Drivers 22, Ed Kliever's Iron Men 16V and Joe Jorgensen's Cream Puffs 6. Henry Niedermeyer of the Cream Puffs won the shoot off 24 to 23 against Ray Cole man of the Nail Drivers for individual honors. Each had a 292 score for 300 targets in the six Sunday shoots. Deaver Tractor's Busters were tops in attendance last Sunday with 14 men and had top total score of 600. The Chrystal Meat Balls had 240 for high five and were sec ond in the day's scoring with ,17 markers. Pluggers had 9Vfc for the day, Iron Men 11, Nail Drivers 3 and Cream Puffs 1. Meat Balls were second in attendance with 13 and in to tal bird count with 556. The Busters and Pluggers tied for high five runner-up with 237 each, and the Iron Men were close with 236, Drivers had 234 and the Puffs 230. A dinner and dance will be held the last week of this month as a wrap up to the tourney activity. against Rogue water use for industry be repealed or amended but Waltonians took the stand through their reso lution that they want the leg islation on the books until guarantees of sufficient stream flow and against pollu tion of the Rogue are as sured. Waltonian members passed the resolution by a wide mar gin after thoroughly discuss ing the measure and bringing out the importance of indus try in the basin. They ex pressed their desire of proof that stream flow will be main tained by industries and that the river will not be polluted. It was stated that the game commission is not in favor of repeal. . . On the game commission budget matter, members ap proved a motion that a resolu tion be drawn up opposing the cut of $2,237,739 made in the biennial budget made by the state department of fi nance and administration. It was stressed that the game commission money is not out of the general fund but is "dedicated revenue" mainly from license fees. It is "silly" to call it a savings to cut the game budget, one member remarked, declaring that such action is not a sav ings of taxpayers money. Items which have been re moved by the finance depart ment include $350,000 for im poundment construction for rearing anadromous fish, $40, 000 for stream clearance, $96, 000 for a warm water fish im poundment program and $84, 000 for fishway and screen ing activity. Tom Rickard, Henry De- Voss and Paul Weiland were named to draw up the resolu tion which will be forwarded to Jackson county legislators and to the proper legislative committees. , PACKERS NAME AUSTIN Green Bay, Wis. 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The St. Mary's Gaels took a commanding lead in the West Coast Athletic Confer ence today after dispelling any doubt as to their su periority over second-place College of Pacific. The Morgans out-rebounded and out-shot the Bengals Tuesday night to move into a two-game lead in WCAC play with a 6-0 record. COP had a chance, slim it is now evi dent, to grab a tie for first place by defeating the Gaels, but now trail the latter with a 4-2 mark. Tom Meschery held the na tion's top rebounder, LeRoy Wright, to only 12 rebounds and pulled down 18 himself while leading St. Mary's to a convincing 63-47 victory. The Tigers managed to end the first half with a 24-24 deadlock, but faded in the final period. HORNET JV WINNER Hedrick seventh grade var sity defeated Lone Pine grade basketball team 19 to 6 yes terday. Lone Pine got all its points in the third quarter and the Hornets had period leads of 7 to 0, 12 to 0 and 15 to 6. 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