Title
Effects of Pressure on Survival of Six Species of Fish
Publication Date
1965
Keywords
activity, Atlantic salmon, day/night samples, Hydropower, Kennebec River, mortality, perch, pressure effects, salmon, survival, swimming, trout, turbines, yellow perch
Journal or Book Title
Transactions of the American Fisheries Society
Abstract
A study was made to determine the effects of pressures likely to be encountered in a pumping station in Maine. Experiments were conducted with chain pickerel, yellow perch, fall fish, common shiner, lake trout and Atlantic salmon. Test fish exhibited extreme and erratic violent swimming activity for the first few seconds after exposure to a pressure of 300 psi. Salmon, lake trout and fall fish experienced no mortality during the 7-day period after exposure. Sixty percent of yellow perch died after 7 days.
Pages
88-91
Volume
94