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Mortality of Juvenile American Shad and Striped Bass Passed through Ossberger Crossflow Turbines at a Small‐Scale Hydroelectric Site
Author(s) -
Dubois Robert B.,
Gloss Steven P.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
north american journal of fisheries management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.587
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1548-8675
pISSN - 0275-5947
DOI - 10.1577/1548-8675(1993)013<0178:mojasa>2.3.co;2
Subject(s) - alosa , bass (fish) , juvenile , fishery , micropterus , morone saxatilis , hydroelectricity , biology , turbine , fish mortality , fish <actinopterygii> , zoology , environmental science , ecology , fish migration , engineering , mechanical engineering
A full‐recovery technique was used in mortality experiments conducted with juveniles of American shad Alosa sapidissima and striped bass Morone saxatilis passed through Ossberger crossflow turbines to obtain antecedent information about their fish passage characteristics. Immediate turbine‐induced mortality was 66% for 85‐mm‐long (total length) American shad. Turbine‐induced mortality of striped bass was significantly related to the total length of the fish and ranged from 16% for 67–83‐mm‐long fish to 39% for 136‐mm‐long fish immediately after passage; after 24 h, turbine‐induced mortalities of these two size‐groups were 61 and 72%, respectively. The mortality of striped bass was not affected by power output (320–600 kW) of the turbine or by turbine size (650 versus 850 kW). Because of high mortality of control fish, the full‐recovery technique was not fully adequate for obtaining reliable delayed‐mortality estimates for these fragile fish species.