Effects of Pressure on Survival of Six Species of Fish

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...

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Main Authors: Foye, R E, Scott, M
Format: Text
Language:unknown
Published: ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst 1965
Subjects:
activity
Atlantic salmon
day/night samples
Hydropower
Kennebec River
mortality
perch
pressure effects
salmon
survival
swimming
trout
turbines
yellow perch
Psi
Online Access:https://scholarworks.umass.edu/fishpassage_journal_articles/88
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Summary: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.

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