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Estimating the daily passage of juvenile salmonids at McNary Dam on the Columbia River

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dc.contributor.authorGiorgi, A E
dc.contributor.authorSims, C W
dc.date2023-09-23T05:04:49.000
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-26T17:20:40Z
dc.date.available2024-04-26T17:20:40Z
dc.date.issued1987
dc.description.abstractThe U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service, under contract to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, monitored the seaward migration of juvenile salmonids through the Snake-Columbia river system from 1973 to 1983. We developed a procedure for estimating the numbers of steelhead Salmo gairdneri and yearling chinook salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha smolts passing McNary Dam each day in 1982-1983. The method utilized the fingerling collection and bypass system contained within the powerhouse. Freeze-branded groups of smolts released upstream from the dam were used to calibrate the efficiency with which migrants were collected over a range of powerhouse discharge levels. Application of collection efficiency calibration curves enables researchers and fisheries managers to generate daily estimates of smolt passage as a function of the amount of water discharged through the powerhouse and the number of fish collected in the bypass system.
dc.description.pages215-222
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14394/27308
dc.relation.ispartofNorth American Journal of Fisheries Management
dc.source.issue7
dc.source.statuspublished
dc.subjectjuvenile
dc.subjectsalmonids
dc.subjectMcNary Dam
dc.subjectColumbia River
dc.subjectArmy Corps of Engineers
dc.subjectseaward migration
dc.subjectmigration
dc.subjectsteelhead
dc.subjectchinook
dc.subjectsalmon
dc.subjectOncorhynchus tshawytscha
dc.subjectsmolt
dc.subjectbypass
dc.subjectupstream
dc.subjectefficiency
dc.subjectsmolt passage
dc.titleEstimating the daily passage of juvenile salmonids at McNary Dam on the Columbia River
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digcom.contributor.authorGiorgi, A E
digcom.contributor.authorSims, C W
digcom.identifierfishpassage_journal_articles/214
digcom.identifier.contextkey2446149
digcom.identifier.submissionpathfishpassage_journal_articles/214
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