major anthropogenic physical disturbance
Columbia River: 81 more pile dikes completed
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1928
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“Oyster growers have tried various means of defense against these persistent burrowers. But there seems to be as yet no really adequate and at the same time practical method of coping with the marine ‘crayfish.’”
Belle Stevens, “Ecological observations on Callianassidae of Puget Sound.” Ecology 10: 399-404
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1928
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1928
BURROWING SHRIMP
Burrowing shrimp are described as a problem for oyster growers; it was hypothesized that the removal of ‘cultch’ substrate during early oyster harvest exposed mud that was subsequently colonized by burrowing shrimp. ‘Boarding’ was used to prevent burrowing shrimp on native oyster Ostrea lurida ground.
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1928
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1928
SHELLFISH AND CULTIVATION
Washington Department of Fisheries identifies excess oysters in reserves to sell; oyster growers successfully halt sale from reserves (WDF 1920, Washington State Fish Commissioner Annual Reports, per Brady Blake). Eastern oyster culture crashed, no causative agent found (Kincaid 1968).
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1919
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1919
“Japanese oysters are to be experimented with by local oystermen. A shipment of 100 pounds came on the oriental liner Nicomedia consigned to A. L. Bush & Sons of Bay Center, Wash. They came from Japan, and are known as the Kanagawa variety.
Officials of the Portland and Asiatic Steamship company state that the firm procured the oysters with which to make an experiment…J.W. Ransom procured some of the same sort of oysters last year, and they were planted in Shoalwater ...
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1904
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1904