Effectiveness of a fish-guiding device for downstream migrating smolts of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) in the River Piteälven,northern Sweden

• Main Author: Vikström, Linda
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English; Swedish
• Published: SLU/Dept. of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies 2016
• Subjects: salmon smolt; spill gate passage; turbine-mortality; fish way; guidance structure; Piteälven; Sikfors; Atlantic salmon; Norra Sverige; Northern Sweden; Salmo salar
• Online Access: https://stud.epsilon.slu.se/9075/

Hydropower poses a major threat to both upstream and downstream migrating Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.). To ensure a relatively safe route for migrating fish, fish ways and different guidance structures are constructed to help fish to bypass the turbine intakes to power stations. The success of t...