. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. 36 COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW Vol. 17, No. 11 A total of 52 drags were made at depths of 21 to 116 fathoms, 45 with a 20-foot beam trawl having l|^-inch stretched-mesh netting, and 7 with a small West Coast box-type otter trawl having a l;^-inch stretch- ed-miesh cod end. The best catches of shrimp (per one- hour drag) with the beam trawl were made off Grays Harbor where 5 drags at 49 to 71 fathoms caught from 75 to 140 pounds of pink shrimp per drag, and off theQueets River where 5 drags at 57 to 88 fathoms caught from 80 to 150 pounds pe
. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. 36 COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW Vol. 17, No. 11 A total of 52 drags were made at depths of 21 to 116 fathoms, 45 with a 20-foot beam trawl having l|^-inch stretched-mesh netting, and 7 with a small West Coast box-type otter trawl having a l;^-inch stretch- ed-miesh cod end. The best catches of shrimp (per one- hour drag) with the beam trawl were made off Grays Harbor where 5 drags at 49 to 71 fathoms caught from 75 to 140 pounds of pink shrimp per drag, and off theQueets River where 5 drags at 57 to 88 fathoms caught from 80 to 150 pounds per drag. Off Willapa Bay 15 drags at 34 to 116 fatnoms caught from 14 to 130 pounds of pink shrimp per drag. Side-stripe shrimp were taken in insignificant quantities in several of the deeper drags. Drags with the otter trawl off Copalis Head at 48 to 80 fathoms caught from 240 to 600 pounds of pink shrimp per one-hour drag. The main purpose of using the otter trawl was to compare its effectiveness with that of the beam trawl. While the otter trawl proved to be more efficient than the beam trawl in taking shrimp, catches with this gear also contained considerable quan- tities of bottom fish which were difficult to separate from the shrimp. Catches with the beam trawl generally contained only small quantities of bottom fish along with the shrimp. In general most of the bottom dragged was composed of a mixture of green mud and sand. Favorable dragging bottom was found in most portions of the area; however, one drag resulted in a broken beam and. MA' John N. Cobb Cruise 24, 1955. another drag resulted in a torn otter trawl Samples of shrimp from all localities were collected and frozen by biologists from the State of Washington Department of Fisheries' shellfish division for biologi- cal study. Considerable fishing time was lost during the cruise because of adverse weath- er conditions. There has been considerable industry interest in potential shrimp grounds off the Wash
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