Swimming performance and behaviour of bighead carp (Hypophthalmichthys nobilis): Application to fish passage and exclusion criteria

• Published in: Ecological Engineering
• Main Authors: Newbold, Lynda R., Shi, Xiaotao, Hou, Yiqun, Han, Deju, Kemp, Paul S.
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV 2016
• Subjects: Asian carp; Dams; Migration barriers; Invasive control; Performance methodologies; Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Engineering; Ecology; Environmental; Environmental Sciences; VERTICAL-SLOT FISHWAY; YANGTZE-RIVER BASIN; OPEN-CHANNEL FLOW; VELOCITY BARRIERS; ANGUILLA-ANGUILLA; UPSTREAM PASSAGE; CYPRINUS-CARPIO; SMALLMOUTH BASS; RAINBOW-TROUT; YOUNG SOCKEYE; Sockeye; Anguilla anguilla
• Online Access: http://ir.ihb.ac.cn/handle/342005/31921; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2016.06.119

The bighead carp (Hypophthalmichthys nobilis) is one of the most commercially important freshwater fish species in China, but their abundance has declined considerably in recent decades, partly due to river regulation. In other countries it is invasive, posing an ecological and economic threat. To i...