473
Views
23
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
ARTICLE

Downstream Migration and Multiple Dam Passage by Atlantic Salmon Smolts

, , , , , & show all
Pages 816-828 | Received 08 Jul 2016, Accepted 29 Apr 2017, Published online: 30 Jun 2017

References

  • Aarestrup, K., H. Baktoft, A. Koed, D. Del Villar-Guerra, and E. B. Thorstad. 2014. Comparison of the riverine and early marine migration behaviour and survival of wild and hatchery-reared sea trout Salmo trutta smolts. Marine Ecology Progress Series 496:197–206.
  • Aarestrup, K., and A. Koed. 2003. Survival of migrating sea trout (Salmo trutta) and Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) smolts negotiating weirs in small Danish rivers. Ecology of Freshwater Fish 12:169–176.
  • Adams, N. S., J. M. Plumb, R. W. Perry, and D. W. Rondorf. 2014. Performance of a surface bypass structure to enhance juvenile steelhead passage and survival at Lower Granite Dam, Washington. Northern American Journal of Fisheries Management 34:576–594.
  • Antonsson, T., and S. Gudjonsson. 2002. Variability in timing and characteristics of Atlantic Salmon smolt in Icelandic rivers. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 131:643–655.
  • Arenas, A., M. Politano, L. Weber, and M. Timko. 2015. Analysis of movements and behavior of smolts swimming in hydropower reservoirs. Ecological Modelling 312:292–307.
  • Brannon, E. L., D. F. Amend, M. A. Cronin, J. E. Lannan, S. LaPatra, W. J. McNeil, R. E. Noble, C. E. Smith, A. J. Talbot, and G. A. Wedemeyer. 2004. The controversy about salmon hatcheries. Fisheries 29(9):12–31.
  • Brown, J. J., K. E. Limburg, J. R. Waldman, K. Stephenson, E. P. Glenn, F. Juanes, and A. Jordaan. 2013. Fish and hydropower on the US Atlantic coast: failed fisheries policies from half‐way technologies. Conservation Letters 6:280–286.
  • Brown, R. S., S. J. Cooke, W. G. Anderson, and R. S. McKinley. 1999. Evidence to challenge the “2% rule” for biotelemetry. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 19:867–871.
  • Buchanan, R. A., J. R. Skalski, and G. A. McMichael. 2009. Differentiating mortality from delayed migration in subyearling fall Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 66:2243–2255.
  • Bunt, C., T. Castro‐Santos, and A. Haro. 2012. Performance of fish passage structures at upstream barriers to migration. River Research and Applications 28:457–478.
  • Čada, G. F., M. D. Deacon, S. V. Mitz, and M. S. Bevelhimer. 1997. Effects of water velocity on the survival of downstream‐migrating juvenile salmon and steelhead: a review with emphasis on the Columbia River basin. Reviews in Fisheries Science 5:131–183.
  • Calles, O., and L. Greenberg. 2009. Connectivity is a two‐way street—the need for a holistic approach to fish passage problems in regulated rivers. River Research and Applications 25:1268–1286.
  • Calles, O., P. Rivinoja, and L. Greenberg. 2013. A historical perspective on downstream passage at hydroelectric plants in Swedish rivers. Pages 309–322 in I. Maddock, A. Harby, P. Kemp, and P. Wood, editors. Ecohydraulics: an integrated approach. Wiley, Chichester, UK.
  • Castro-Santos, T., A. Cotel, and P. Webb. 2009. Fishway evaluations for better bioengineering: an integrative approach. Pages 557–575 in A. Haro, K. L. Smith, R. A. Rulifson, C. M. Moffitt, R. J. Klauda, M. J. Dadswell, R. A. Cunjak, J. E. Cooper, K. L. Beal, and T. S. Avery, editors. Challenges for diadromous fishes in a dynamic global environment. American Fisheries Society, Symposium 69, Bethesda, Maryland.
  • Castro-Santos, T., and R. Perry. 2012. Time-to-event analysis as a framework for quantifying fish passage performance. Pages 427–452 in N. S. Adams, J. W. Beeman, and J. H. Eiler, editors. Telemetry techniques: user guide for fisheries research. America Fisheries Society, Bethesda, Maryland.
  • Castro-Santos, T., X. Shi, and A. Haro. 2017. Migratory behavior of adult Sea Lamprey and cumulative passage performance through four fishways. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 74:790–800.
  • Chipman, B. D., N. R. Staats, and D. N. Gibson. 2013. Salmonid management. Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife, Federal Aid in Sport Fish Restoration, Project F-35-R-16, Job Performance Report, Montpelier.
  • Colotelo, A. H., B. W. Jones, R. A. Harnish, G. A. McMichael, K. D. Ham, Z. D. Deng, G. M. Squeochs, R. S. Brown, M. A. Weiland, G. R. Ploskey, X. Li, and T. Fu. 2012. Steelhead kelt passage distributions and federal Columbia River power system survival for fish tagged above and at Lower Granite Dam draft final report. Batelle, Pacific Northwest Division, Richland, Washington.
  • Cooke, S. J., C. M. Woodley, M. B. Eppard, R. S. Brown, and J. L. Nielsen. 2011. Advancing the surgical implantation of electronic tags in fish: a gap analysis and research agenda based on a review of trends in intracoelomic tagging effects studies. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries 21:127–151.
  • Cunjak, R., and J. Therrien. 1998. Inter‐stage survival of wild juvenile Atlantic Salmon, Salmo salar L. Fisheries Management and Ecology 5:209–223.
  • Deng, Z., T. J. Carlson, and M. C. Richmond. 2007. Six-degree-of-freedom sensor fish design and instrumentation. Sensors 7:3399–3415.
  • Dickhoff, W. W., L. C. Folmar, and A. Gorbman. 1978. Changes in plasma thyroxine during smoltification of Coho Salmon Oncorhynchus kisutch. General and Comparative Endocrinology 36:229–232.
  • Dingle, H. 2006. Animal migration: is there a common migratory syndrome? Journal of Ornithology 147:212–220.
  • Edmunds, M. C. 1874. A—inquiry into the decrease of the food-fishes. B—the propagation of food-fishes in the waters of the United States. In Report of the Commissioner for 1872 and 1873, part 3. U.S. Commission of Fish and Fisheries, Washington, D.C.
  • Evans, S. D., and J. R. Stevenson. 2012. Optimization of radio telemetry receiving systems. Pages 139–161 in N. S. Adams, J. W. Beeman, and J. H. Eiler, editors. Telemetry techniques: user guide for fisheries research. America Fisheries Society, Bethesda, Maryland.
  • Ferguson, J. W. 2005. The behavior and ecology of downstream migrating Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar L.) and Brown Trout (Salmo trutta L.) in regulated rivers in northern Sweden. Swedish University of Agriculture, Vattenbruksinstitutionen, Number 44, Umeå.
  • Ferguson, J. W., R. F. Absolon, T. J. Carlson, and B. P. Sandford. 2006. Evidence of delayed mortality on juvenile Pacific salmon passing through turbines at Columbia River dams. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 135:139–150.
  • Hansen, L., B. Jonsson, and K. Døving. 1984. Migration of wild and hatchery reared smolts of Atlantic Salmon, Salmo salar L., through lakes. Journal of Fish Biology 25:617–623.
  • Hesthagen, T., and E. Garnås. 1986. Migration of Atlantic Salmon smolts in River Orkla of central Norway in relation to management of a hydroelectric station. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 6:376–382.
  • Hosmer, D. W., S. Lemeshow, and S. May. 2008. Applied survival analysis: regression modeling of time-to-event data, 2nd edition. Wiley, Hoboken, New Jersey.
  • Huusko, A., L. Greenberg, M. Stickler, T. Linnansaari, M. Nykänen, T. Vehanen, S. Koljonen, P. Louhi, and K. Alfredsen. 2007. Life in the ice lane: the winter ecology of stream salmonids. River Research and Applications 23:469–491.
  • IUBMB (International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology). 1992. Enzyme nomenclature 1992. Academic Press, San Diego, California.
  • Jackson, C. D., G. E. Brown, and I. Fleming. 2011. Differences in antipredator behaviour between wild and hatchery-reared juvenile Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) under seminatural conditions. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 68:2157–2166.
  • Jepsen, N., A. Koed, E. B. Thorstad, and E. Baras. 2002. Surgical implantation of telemetry transmitters in fish: how much have we learned? Hydrobiologia 483:239–248.
  • Jonsson, B., and N. Jonsson. 2011. Ecology of Atlantic Salmon and Brown Trout: habitat as a template for life histories. Springer, Fish and Fisheries Series 33, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.
  • Jonsson, B., and J. Ruud-Hansen. 1985. Water temperature as the primary influence on timing of seaward migrations of Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) smolts. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 42:593–595.
  • Jonsson, B., R. Waples, and K. Friedland. 1999. Extinction considerations for diadromous fishes. ICES Journal of Marine Science 56:405–409.
  • Karppinen, P., P. Jounela, R. Huusko, and J. Erkinaro. 2013. Effects of release timing on migration behaviour and survival of hatchery‐reared Atlantic Salmon smolts in a regulated river. Ecology of Freshwater Fish 23:438–452.
  • Kraabøl, M., S. Johnsen, J. Museth, and O. Sandlund. 2009. Conserving iteroparous fish stocks in regulated rivers: the need for a broader perspective! Fisheries Management and Ecology 16:337–340.
  • Larsen, M. H., J. I. Johnsson, J. Näslund, S. T. Thomassen, and K. Aarestrup. 2015. Reduced rearing density increases postrelease migration success of Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) smolts. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 73:804–810.
  • Liedtke, T. L., and A. M. W. Rub. 2012. Techniques for telemetry transmitter attachment and evaluation of transmitter effects on fish performance. Pages 45–87 in N. S. Adams, J. W. Beeman, and J. H. Eiler, editors. Telemetry techniques: user guide for fisheries research. America Fisheries Society, Bethesda, Maryland.
  • Marschall, E. A., M. E. Mather, D. L. Parrish, G. W. Allison, and J. R. McMenemy. 2011. Migration delays caused by anthropogenic barriers: modeling dams, temperature, and success of migrating salmon smolts. Ecological Applications 21:3014–3031.
  • Marsden, J. E., and R. W. Langdon. 2012. The history and future of Lake Champlain’s fishes and fisheries. Journal of Great Lakes Research 38:19–34.
  • McClure, M. M., F. M. Utter, C. Baldwin, R. W. Carmichael, P. F. Hassemer, P. J. Howell, P. Spruell, T. D. Cooney, H. A. Schaller, and C. E. Petrosky. 2008. Evolutionary effects of alternative artificial propagation programs: implications for viability of endangered anadromous salmonids. Evolutionary Applications 1:356–375.
  • McCormick, S. D. 1993. Methods for non-lethal gill biopsy and measurement of Na+,K+-ATPase activity. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 50:656–658.
  • McCormick, S. D., B. T. Björnsson, M. Sheridan, C. Eilertson, J. B. Carey, and M. O’Dea. 1995. Increased daylength stimulates plasma growth hormone and gill Na+,K+-ATPase in Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar). Journal of Comparative Physiology A 165:245–254.
  • McCormick, S. D., R. A. Cunjak, B. Dempson, M. F. O’Dea, and J. B. Carey. 1999. Temperature-related loss of smolt characteristics in Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) in the wild. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 56:1649–1667.
  • McCormick, S. D., L. P. Hansen, T. P. Quinn, and R. L. Saunders. 1998. Movement, migration, and smolting of Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 55:77–92.
  • Mesa, M. G. 1994. Effects of multiple acute stressors on the predator avoidance ability and physiology of juvenile Chinook Salmon. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 123:786–793.
  • Montgomery, D. R. 2004. King of fish: the thousand-year run of salmon. Basic Books, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
  • Muir, W. D., D. M. Marsh, B. P. Sandford, S. G. Smith, and J. G. Williams. 2006. Post-hydropower system delayed mortality of transported Snake River stream-type Chinook Salmon: unraveling the mystery. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 135:1523–1534.
  • Muir, W. D., S. G. Smith, J. G. Williams, and B. P. Sandford. 2001. Survival of juvenile salmonids passing through bypass systems, turbines, and spillways with and without flow deflectors at Snake River dams. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 21:135–146.
  • Nettles, D., and S. Gloss. 1987. Migration of landlocked Atlantic Salmon smolts and effectiveness of a fish bypass structure at a small-scale hydroelectric facility. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 7:562–568.
  • Newton, M., J. Barry, J. Dodd, M. Lucas, P. Boylan, and C. Adams. 2016. Does size matter? A test of size‐specific mortality in Atlantic Salmon Salmo salar smolts tagged with acoustic transmitters. Journal of Fish Biology 89:1641–1650.
  • Nilsen, T. O., L. O. E. Ebbesson, and S. O. Stefansson. 2003. Smolting in anadromous and landlocked strains of Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar). Aquaculture 222:71–82.
  • Noonan, M. J., J. W. Grant, and C. D. Jackson. 2012. A quantitative assessment of fish passage efficiency. Fish and Fisheries 13:450–464.
  • Norrgård, J. R., L. A. Greenberg, J. J. Piccolo, M. Schmitz, and E. Bergman. 2012. Multiplicative loss of landlocked Atlantic Salmon Salmo Salar L. smolts during downstream migration through multiple dams. River Research and Applications 29:1306–1317.
  • Nyqvist, D., L. A. Greenberg, E. Goerig, O. Calles, E. Bergman, W. R. Ardren and T. Castro-Santos. In press. Migratory delay leads to reduced passage success of Atlantic Salmon smolts at a hydroelectric dam. Ecology of Freshwater Fish. DOI: 10.1111/eff.12318.
  • Pedersen, L. F., A. Koed, and H. Malte. 2008. Swimming performance of wild and F1‐hatchery‐reared Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) and Brown Trout (Salmo trutta) smolts. Ecology of Freshwater Fish 17:425–431.
  • Pohlert, T. 2014. The pairwise multiple comparison of mean ranks package (PMCMR). Available: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/PMCMR/vignettes/PMCMR.pdf. (June 2017).
  • Portz, D. E., C. M. Woodley, and J. J. Cech Jr. 2006. Stress-associated impacts of short-term holding on fishes. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries 16:125–170.
  • Roscoe, D., S. Hinch, S. Cooke, and D. Patterson. 2011. Fishway passage and post‐passage mortality of up‐river migrating Sockeye Salmon in the Seton River, British Columbia. River Research and Applications 27:693–705.
  • Roscoe, D. W., and S. G. Hinch. 2010. Effectiveness monitoring of fish passage facilities: historical trends, geographic patterns and future directions. Fish and Fisheries 11:12–33.
  • Schilt, C. R. 2007. Developing fish passage and protection at hydropower dams. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 104:295–325.
  • Schreck, C. B., T. P. Stahl, L. E. Davis, D. D. Roby, and B. J. Clemens. 2006. Mortality estimates of juvenile spring–summer Chinook Salmon in the lower Columbia River and estuary, 1992–1998: evidence for delayed mortality? Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 135:457–475.
  • Skalski, J. R., D. Mathur, and P. G. Heisey. 2002. Effects of turbine operating efficiency on smolt passage survival. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 22:1193–1200.
  • Spicer, A. V., J. R. Moring, and J. G. Trial. 1995. Downstream migratory behavior of hatchery-reared, radio-tagged Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) smolts in the Penobscot River, Maine, USA. Fisheries Research 23:255–266.
  • Stich, D., M. Bailey, and J. Zydlewski. 2014. Survival of Atlantic Salmon Salmo salar smolts through a hydropower complex. Journal of Fish Biology 85:1074–1096.
  • Stich, D. S., G. B. Zydlewski, J. F. Kocik, and J. D. Zydlewski. 2015. Linking behavior, physiology, and survival of Atlantic Salmon smolts during estuary migration. Marine and Coastal Fisheries 7:68–86.
  • Therneau, T. M., and T. Lumley. 2016. Package ‘survival’. Available: http://cran.um.ac.ir/web/packages/survival/survival.pdf. (June 2017).
  • Thorstad, E., F. Whoriskey, I. Uglem, A. Moore, A. Rikardsen, and B. Finstad. 2012. A critical life stage of the Atlantic Salmon Salmo salar: behavior and survival during the smolt and initial post‐smolt migration. Journal of Fish Biology 81:500–542.
  • Videler, J. J. 1993. Fish swimming. Chapman and Hall, London.
  • Volkhardt, G. C., S. L. Johnson, B. A. Miller, T. E. Nickelson, and D. E. Seiler. 2007. Rotary screw traps and inclined plane screen traps. Pages 235–266 in D. H. Johnson, B. M. Shrier, J. S. O’Neal, J. A. Knutzen, X. Augerot, T. A. O’Neil, and T. N. Pearsons, editors. Salmonid field protocols handbook: techniques for assessing status and trends in salmon and trout populations. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, Maryland.
  • Vowles, A. S., J. J. Anderson, M. H. Gessel, J. G. Williams, and P. S. Kemp. 2014. Effects of avoidance behaviour on downstream fish passage through areas of accelerating flow when light and dark. Animal Behaviour 92:101–109.
  • Waldman, J. 2013. Running silver: restoring Atlantic rivers and their great fish migrations. Lyon Press, Guilford, Connecticut.
  • Ward, D. L., J. H. Petersen, and J. J. Loch. 1995. Index of predation on juvenile salmonids by Northern Squawfish in the lower and middle Columbia River and in the lower Snake River. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 124:321–334.
  • Watson, W. C. 1876. A—inquiry into the decrease of the food-fishes. B—the propagation of food-fishes in the waters of the United States. In Report of the Commissioner for 1873–4 and 1874–5, part 3. U.S. Commission of Fish and Fisheries, Washington, D.C.
  • Webster, D. A. 1982. Early history of the Atlantic Salmon in New York. New York Fish and Game Journal 29:26–44.
  • Whalen, K. G., D. L. Parrish, and S. D. McCormick. 1999. Migration timing of Atlantic Salmon smolts relative to environmental and physiological factors. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 128:289–301.
  • Williams, J. G., S. G. Smith, and W. D. Muir. 2001. Survival estimates for downstream migrant yearling juvenile salmonids through the Snake and Columbia rivers hydropower system, 1966–1980 and 1993–1999. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 21:310–317.
  • Zydlewski, G. B., G. Horton, T. Dubreuil, B. Letcher, S. Casey, and J. Zydlewski. 2006. Remote monitoring of fish in small streams: a unified approach using PIT tags. Fisheries 31:492–502.
  • Zydlewski, J., D. Stich, and D. Sigourney. 2017. Hard choices in assessing survival past dams — a comparison of single- and paired-release strategies. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 74:178–190.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.