The Effect of New Breaching in a Prudhoe Bay Causeway on the Coastal Distribution of Humpback Whitefish

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Fechhelm, Robert G.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1999
• Subjects: Arctic; causeways; Coregonus pidschian; humpback whitefish; impacts; oil production; Arctique; ponts-jetées; cisco à bosse; retombées; production pétrolière; Gravier; Mer de Beaufort; Arctique*; Beaufort Sea; Humpback whitefish; pidschian; Prudhoe Bay; Alaska
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/63999

West Dock is a solid-gravel petroleum production causeway 4.3 km long that was constructed along the Beaufort Sea coast near Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, in the late 1970s. In the winter of 1995-96, a breach 200 m wide was constructed 1 km from the base of the causeway. Fish monitoring studies conducted dur...