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Seasonal Changes in Dissolved‐Gas Supersaturation in the Sacramento River and Possible Effects on Striped Bass
Author(s) -
Colt John
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
transactions of the american fisheries society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.696
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1548-8659
pISSN - 0002-8487
DOI - 10.1577/1548-8659(1984)113<655:scidsi>2.0.co;2
Subject(s) - bass (fish) , supersaturation , environmental science , fishery , hydrology (agriculture) , oceanography , chemistry , biology , geology , geotechnical engineering , organic chemistry
During 1981–1982, dissolved‐gas supersaturation levels were monitored in the Sacramento River system in central California. Gas supersaturation was highest in the spring when temperature and flow were increasing rapidly, and was caused primarily by inflows of highly supersaturated water from the American and Feather rivers. Entrainment of air at dams does not appear to be responsible for gas supersaturation in these two rivers. Gas supersaturation in the Sacramento‐San Joaquin River system may adversely affect the eggs and larvae of wild striped bass Morone saxatilis and salmonids in hatcheries. Received April 9, 1983 Accepted May 11, 1984