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o O o o O o THliEV, SSxnY 12, X$lG0 g The Rogue River Fisheries G o o MEDFORD MAIL TRltflJNE, MEDFORD. ORE. Regulations Formulated Harvest Control Of Resource Is Sought in Laws (Editor's note: This is the :. 11th in a series of articles on the Rogue river fishery and its management. To day's article discusses regu lations which are establish ed by the game commission for the Rogue system with emphasis placed on their needs and what they are de signed to accomplish.) By COLE M. RIVERS Fisheries Agent Game Commission ' Angling regulations are for mulated each January by the game commission to manage the sports fishing through the year. The purpose o regula tions is to con trol the har vest of one of the s t a t e's most valuable r e ne w a b 1 e resources. An other purpose is to distrib ute a safe harvest among cole nivars as many ang lers as is possible, i Because of the many runs and kinds of fish, both resi dent and migratory, that are found in the same water, an gling rules established for the Rogue river are varied and complex. Each group of fish is managed on an individual basis or as nearly so as pos sible. All are harvested at a maximum rate without en dangering their numbers for future expansion and use. A few people have difficul ty understanding the angling charts for the Rogue river. Fortunately, most of the an gling public take the time to read and study the material. With the aid of the maps to show where the deadlines are located in case the reader is ' not familiar with them, the answers to where and when they can go fishing are ob vious. Largest Population The largest population of "trout" in the middle and lower sections of the basin in the spring consists of down stream migrant steelhead. The late opening of the trout sea son protects this concentra tion of steelhead until it is well down the river toward the sea. In the lower canyon and below, these same fish are protected with an 8-inch minimum size limit. Many of the Rogue's adult steelhead are under 20 inches in length. In parts of the basin they are found in the same i V , tMl:y ' f tJ . n i. . " . i ' "v -jL 1 (' i v ilfk ' . 1 hti ' I , .' A ? i , ,11 ws, , . f h.- STEALS RIDE Stealing march ri the field, student Herbert Schlobohm. IS, rides his bicvele across the about-to-be-opened ThroRf'Neck bridge in The Bronx. N Y.. Wrdncsdny ai construction workers cheer "him on. Herbert rode his bike across the new $!)2 million bridge ahead of any of the waters occupied by resident trout. The general state regu lations do not recognize fish under 20 inches in length as steelhead so all Rogue steel head are regulated as trout. The manipulation of sea sons and i areas for "trout" controls the catch of steel head but still allows the pur suit of resident trout in much of the same water. The trout bag limit (10 fish but not more than 5 of which may be over 12 inches in length and not more than 2 over 20 inches) serves many purposes for various waters over the state. In the Rogue system, it is designed to (1) limit the catch of steelhead migrants in summer months, (2) allow full pursuit of resi dent and planted trout in streams, and (3) distribute trout taken from lakes among a greater number of anglers. Early Switch The early switch in the fall to a bag limit of two fish over 12 inches in length with appropriate deadline changes takes fishing pressure off the spring-run steelhead, controls excessive catch of the fall-run steelhead, and protects the juvenile steelhead in areas where they are in rearing con centrations. Each of the changes in deadlines at various dates throughout the fall and wint er seasons has a purpose. The fall run of steelhead receives extremely heavy fishing pres sure, and it becomes necessary to remove that pressure to prevent an overcatch. Following behind the fall run is the large run of winter steelhead that generally needs no protection from anglers' catch because adverse water and weather conditions usual ly permit an adequate num ber to escape for spawning. The date and deadline changes allow as many of the winter run to be caught in the limited time that water and weather are right and at the same time relieves the fall run from additional catch. Closed To Protect Fish In February , when many bright, winter fish are still coming up the Rogue, the spent fish of the earlier spring and fall steelhead runs are backing down into the same waters. Actually, fishermen could continue their harvest of this winter run, but the season is closed to protect the spent fish of these valuable early runs. Spawnouts from the spring and fall runs are given pro tection to allow their return as larger fish on their second or third spawning run. Every effort is made to increase the numbers of larger steelhead in spring and fall run. The steelhead season on the Applegate is allowed to offer people from the heavily popu lated sections of the basin some place to go for their winter sleelheading without having to drive long dis tances. Only the first fish in the Applegate run are taken since most of the run does not arrive in the river until March, after the season is closed. Annual Take According to the data from salmon and steelhead punch cards, the annual take of Ap plegate steelhead is less than 500 fish. Counts of redds THREE DIE Three persons burned to death early Wednesday when a truck loaded with turKcys crashed into the rear of another truck on the Kings River bridge on High Business of Keeping Americans Alive Is Big, Bechtold Notes By HENRY J. BECHTOLD UPI Financial Editor New York OJPD - Keeping Americans alive and well ii a $25 billion business. That is the amount spent a n n u ally by the public in the form of fees or charges, health insur ance premi ums, volun tary contribu ting Bechtold lions and tax money for health projects. It breaks' down to $137 a year for every man, woman official automobiles that began the trip after Ifdlcation ceremonies. Spanning the East river to connect the Bronx and the Queens, the new slrucwre link Long Island with the Bronx and other parts nf New York State. - (UPI Telcphoto) (spawning beds) indicate that sufficient numbers of fish running in March and April escape to the spawning grounds. The Illinois steelhead is a true winter-run fish similar to those present in the coastal streams. A full season is al lowed from the time the first fish appears until the occur rence of the first spent fish. The same regulation princi ples that apply to steelhead are applied to salmon. An ex cessive catch is prevented on and child in the United States, according to the first issue of Medicine At Work as a separate publication from the Journal of the American Medical Association. From 1956 through 1959 it was published in the journal as a change of pace from clin ical reading-an informal ap proach to describe how indi viduals, professions and organ izations join to tackle impor tant health matters. Last year the Pharmaceu tical Manufacturers Associa tion recognized the need to re vive this feature in the form of a district publication which would continue to interpret the partners in progress theme. Keeping America Healthy Unemployment is not a problem in the health field, according to statistics in the booklet. Four million people devote either all or part of their earning hours to the health of individuals in this country. That is one out of every 16 persons who work and docs not include volun teers. The key individual in the multi-billion operation is the physician who is needed with such other weighty pressures as his own continuing post graduate education during a period of rapid medical pro gress, his patient's varying re sponses to treatment, and his antagonists' persistent efforts to demolish the art of medical practice in order to transform it into a trade, the publica tion stated. , It added that as the level of wellness rises, demands upon the physician as leader of the health forces grow and be come increasingly complex. The physician, of course, is not alone in this field of health. There are fewer than 250,000 physicians in the United States, and little more than half of them are in full time private practice. There are also nurses and writers, pharmacists and re search workers, dentists and suppliers, sanitation engineers and social workers, therapists and medicine makers. And their numbers arc growing by leaps and bounds. Since the turn of the century, the publication noted, the number of those employed in some phase of health has in creased at a rate five times faster than the population growth as a whole. Key Man Is Doctor As in years past, however, the doctor of medicine, al though far outnumbered by others in the health field, still plays the dominant role. It is he who: -Provides medical services for which Americans !' some $5 billion annually. Phy sicians also give away another SI billion each year In the value of uncollected accounts and ire for the Indigent. -Prescribes medicines and influences the purchase of ad- some of the runs while oth ers are protected in their sum mer resting areas. All are protected through their re spective spawning seasons. Create Aggravations Dates and deadlines which are changed from year to year create aggravations and misunderstandings. Regula tions would not be considered as complex if a firm set of seasons and deadlines could be maintained. However, the resource is changing from cycle to cycle; anglers change way 99 at Kingsbury, Calif. A third truck, a pickup and five cars piled up m a chain reaction on the fog shrouded bridge. (UPI Telcphoto) ditional drug and related products for which people' now spend $4 billion annually for wellness, comfort, sustain ed productivity and, some times, life itself. -Supervises the institution al care of patients who obtain services valued at about $5 billion a year. -Plays an essential part In the purchase of health insur ance, grown into a $1.5 bil lion service. -Orders products and appli ances to aid sight, hearing, speech and movement, for which consumers spend $1 bil lion annually. -Takes part in government health programs and projects at local, state and federal lev els, costing the public $6.5 billion yearly. -Is called upon lo serve or counsel voluntary health agen cies whose annual contribu tions from Americans come lo $1 billion. And, the publication said, this total of $24 billion does not include the public's pay ing of an additional $1 in the social welfare, job vocational, missionary and related areas which have a direct bearing on human health and well being. Parking Meters Are Doing Big Business Chicago - IUPII - Parking meters are doing a thriving business, the American Mu nicipal association reported. A survey by the association showed that about two million meters collect $125 million a year at curbs and in parking lots of 3,850 cities and towns in the nation. The survey, reported In Traffic Quarterly, showed that nearly two-thirds of the me ters arc set at 5 cents an hour and most of these sell 12 min utes' parking for a penny. However, a 10-cenl-an-hour rate is becoming more com mon, the association found, with about 14 per cent of all meters collecting at that pace in 19(10. About half of the cities re porting their plans said they were considering parking me ter rate increases. 2 Milion Bearings Won't Fill Bofte Rolla, N.D. - TO - Lack of warehouse space for inven tory is no problem for an in strument jewel bearing plant tiere. A year's production of some two million bearings, destined for precision defense items and the government's strategic stockpile, would not fill a milk bottle. The plant is np- eratcd for the government by Bulova Watch Co. on a $1 per year eon Ira ft to their methods and shift their pressure to various sections of the watershed; and devel opment causes changes in fishery habitat. Because of these changes, many fish, or runs, are put in vulnerable ' positions. Each change is rec- j ognized and called to the at tention of the commission. ; Regulations are altered to modify the effects of the vary ing patterns of pressure and catch. We are approaching an era of management that may re quire the regulation of resi dent and migratory fisheries separately. To realize this ob jective, the basin would have to be divided into three sec tions, upper, middle and lower. Each area would be regulated with a simple set of seasons and bag limits. In principle, the upper sec lion would allow full pursuit of resident trout, but no sal mon and steelhead could be taken. The middle section would have limited pursuit of salmon and steelhead but no trout fishery. The lower sec tion would be used for liberal pursuit of salmon and steel head only. Either the fishery resource or the pursuit of the sports fishery would have to be sac rificed to realize a simple set of regulations. Scientific man agement is not possible with a general arrangement of sea sons, bag limits, and open areas. In an attempt to find a happy medium, Oregon's an gling synopsis outlines a fair program of good, light man agement. Governor Finds Silk Top Hats Salem - (UPI) - There are more silk top hats around than you think. Gov. Mark Hatfield has an nounced that he will attend the inauguration of Prcsidcnt Elect John F. Kennedy next week but needed a top hat. He doesn't own one and they are a must for the affair. A Hatfield aide said Wed nesday afternoon that so far the governor has had 17 of I fers from people to loan him one. The offers came mostly from the Salem area, and few from Portland. His office put out a plea late Wedncs day for no more offers. Several offers came from unnamed but high ranking Oregon Democrats. They said they couldn't go themselves but wanted their hats to bo there, the aide said. nn n I U I w mm wm I LnJ(2)w ( send How is it you know you're taking no chances when you let a youngster take your shopping list? Isn't it for the same reason that you buy 70 of your family's food without actually seeing it? You know that A good brand is your best guarantee . . . and that the name on the label is your best buying guide. You have learned to count on good Cm) "llw O O o ( O o , t 17, 1 f ig-S BEEF LIVER CHRYSTAL MEATS 4th and Fir o o a child 8 to 10 lb. Average Vi or Whole HALIBUT STEAKS FRESH SIDE PORK Sliced LOCKER BEEF lb. Order The BEST in MEATS SP 2-7375 mo) u o jj -S W-J to the store? brand names. You know the company standi back of them. You know they protect you. The more good brands you get to know, the fewer buying mistakes you'll make. Get ac quainted with those brands in this newspaper. You'll get more value for your shopping money if you do, BRAND NAMES FOUNDATION Incorporated A Non-Profit Educational Foundation 87 Went 67th St., New York 19, N. Y. MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE ishio 35! 49? Country Style SAUSAGE 3 lbs. $100 I $n98 o re VJU if o e0o Q 0 o
