Title

Planning and Evaluating Habitat Projects for Anadromous Salmonids

Publication Date

1991

Notes

ISBN 0-913235-72-5

Publication Title

Fisheries Bioengineering Symposium: American Fisheries Society Symposium 10

Start Page

68

End Page

77

Editors

Colt J;White RJ;

Publication Place

Bethesda, MD

Publisher

American Fisheries Society

Abstract

To improve habitat in a stream system, planning, implementing, and evaluating improvements must address the appropriate spatial and temporal scales, including (1) subbasin inventory information for all seasons of the year--a departure from the usual site or reach inventory normally done during summer, (2) a thorough analysis of factors limiting fish production in the subbasin during all seasons of the year, (3) identification of improvement techniques that address limiting factors, and (4) selection of sites for habitat projects in the basin. Items (1) and (2) are usually done by fishery biologists; items (3) and (4) are more interdisciplinary, thereby requiring skills of both biologists and hydraulic engineers. The evaluation of habitat projects encompasses physical, biological, and economic aspects that must be placed in an appropriate spatial and temporal context. This paper proposes a sequential process for planning and evaluating habitat improvement projects, and discusses examples from northwest Oregon and southeast Alaska.

This document is currently not available here.

COinS