Characterizing the Juvenile Fish Community in Turbid Alaskan Rivers to Assess Potential Interactions with Hydrokinetic Devices

• Published in: Transactions of the American Fisheries Society
• Main Authors: Bradley, Parker T., Evans, Mark D., Seitz, Andrew C.
• Other Authors: Alaska Energy Authority
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2015
• Subjects: Arctic; Yukon; Pacific; Keta; Middle Island; Arctic grayling; Catostomus catostomus; Thymallus arcticus; Yukon river; Alaska
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00028487.2015.1064474; https://afspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00028487.2015.1064474

Abstract Installation of hydrokinetic power‐generating devices is currently being considered for the Yukon and Tanana rivers, two large and glacially turbid rivers in Alaska. We sampled downstream‐migrating fish along the margins of both rivers, a middle island in the Yukon River, and mid‐channel in...