The Use of Electromyogram Telemetry to Estimate Energy Expenditure of Adult Fall Chinook Salmon

Geist, David R.; Abernethy, C. Scott; Blanton, Susan L.; Cullinan, Valerie I.

doi:10.1577/1548-8659(2000)129<0126:tuoett>2.0.co;2

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“…The rates of energy use in the Klickitat River upstream of Lyle Falls were higher than in areas between waterfalls, and also higher than estimated by Geist et al (2000) for a Columbia River reservoir. Energy use rates were likely higher upstream of Lyle Falls since fish progress is not hindered by falls, and fish spend less time resting between attempts at difficult passage.…”

Section: Bioenergetics Modelmentioning

confidence: 57%

“…They describe the relationship between oxygen consumption and swimming speed for spring chinook salmon at three different water temperatures. Two other equations describing the relationship between oxygen consumption and swimming speed for fall chinook salmon (Geist et al 2000) were examined. However, the relationship provided by Geist et al (in prep.…”

Section: Aerobic Energymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A 6-kg fish traveling 6.1 days may thus use approximately 1,208 kcal. Geist et al (2000) estimated the costs for a fall chinook salmon to pass over dams and through reservoirs. They estimated it would cost 19.5 kcal kg -1 d -1 for a fish to pass through each reservoir and approximately 1.7 days to migrate through each reservoir.…”

Section: Bioenergetics Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A delay at waterfalls of 9 to 11 days (at a daily cost of additional 103 -110 kcal; the hourly rate used between Falls 1 and 2, and between Falls 2 and Lyle Falls * 24 hours) would result in all energy reserves being depleted before spawning could occur. Geist et al (2000) estimated that each day a fish was delayed at a mainstem Columbia River dam would result in an extra energy expenditure of 195 kcal. A delay of only 5 to 6 days at Bonneville Dam at this cost would use up all additional energy reserves and fish may fail to spawn.…”

Section: Bioenergetics Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Determination of Swimming Speeds and Energetic Demands of Upriver Migrating Fall Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus Tshawytscha) in the Klickitat River, Washington.

Brown¹,

Geist²

2002

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This report describes a study conducted by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory for the Bonneville Power Administration's Columbia Basin Fish and Wildlife Program during the fall of 2001. The objective was to study the migration and energy use of adult fall chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) traveling up the Klickitat River to spawn. The salmon were tagged with either surgically implanted electromyogram (EMG) transmitters or gastrically implanted coded transmitters and were monitored with mobile and stationary receivers. Swim speed and aerobic and anaerobic energy use were determined for the fish as they attempted passage of three waterfalls on the lower Klickitat River and as they traversed free-flowing stretches between, below, and above the falls.Of the 35 EMG-tagged fish released near the mouth of the Klickitat River, 40% passed the first falls, 24% passed the second falls, and 20% made it to Lyle Falls. None of the EMGtagged fish were able to pass Lyle Falls, either over the falls or via a fishway at Lyle Falls. Mean swimming speeds ranged from as low as 52.6 centimeters per second (cm s -1 ) between falls to as high as 189 (cm s -1 ) at falls passage. Fish swam above critical swimming speeds while passing the falls more often than while swimming between the falls (58.9% versus 1.7% of the transmitter signals). However, fish expended more energy swimming the stretches between the falls than during actual falls passage (100.7 to 128.2 kilocalories [kcals] to traverse areas between or below falls versus 0.3 to 1.0 kcals to pass falls).Relationships between sex, length, and time of day on the success of falls passage were also examined. Average swimming speeds were highest during the day in all areas except at some waterfalls. There was no apparent relationship between either fish condition or length and successful passage of waterfalls in the lower Klickitat River. Female fall chinook salmon, however, had a much lower likelihood of passing waterfalls than males.The study also examined energy costs and swimming speeds for fish released above Lyle Falls as they migrated to upstream spawning areas. This journey averaged 15.93 days to travel a mean maximum of 37.6 km upstream at a total energy cost of approx 3,971 kcals (34% anaerobic and 66% aerobic) for a sample of five fish. A bioenergetics example was run, which estimated that fall chinook salmon would expend an estimated 1,208 kcal to pass from the mouth of the Columbia River to Bonneville Dam and874 kcals to pass Bonneville Dam and pool and the three falls on the Lower Klickitat River, plus an additional 2,770 kcals above the falls to reach the spawning grounds, leaving them with approximately 18% (1,089 kcals) of their original energy reserves for spawning. Results of the bioenergetics example suggest that a delay of 9 to 11 days along the lower Klickitat River may deplete their remaining energy reserves (at a rate of about 105 kcal d -1 ) resulting in death before spawning would occur.iv v Executive SummaryPacific Northwest National Labora...

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Section: Bioenergetics Modelmentioning

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Section: Aerobic Energymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Bioenergetics Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Bioenergetics Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Determination of Swimming Speeds and Energetic Demands of Upriver Migrating Fall Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus Tshawytscha) in the Klickitat River, Washington.

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2002

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“…Nonetheless, fish passage science is imperfect with not all fish successfully locating or ascending the fishway and those that do may experience sublethal alterations that influence fitness. For example, efficient upstream passage of adult salmonids through fishways at large hydroelectric dams may have implications for energy reserves available for spawning [11][12][13]. To know all of these, it may be important to be able to track the detailed movements of the fish from the moment they enter a dam till they leave it (regardless of successfully ascending the fishway or not).…”

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Performance of an acoustic telemetry system in a large fishway

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Background: The ability to track fish in the vicinity of dams and detect the presence of fish in fishways (also referred to as fish ladders) is critical to understanding the migration biology of upstream migrating fish and their passage success. Acoustic telemetry provides a valuable method within the telemetry toolbox, but has rarely been used in noisy, constrained, swift-flowing, and air-entrained environments such as fishways because of the perceived limitations of acoustic telemetry in such environments relative to other techniques such as radio telemetry. However, there have been no published studies that represent systematic evaluations of both detection efficiency based on number of transmitted signals and detection probabilities based on number of fish detected in fishways for acoustic telemetry. As such, the efficacy of acoustic telemetry in a fishway was evaluated using both controlled field experiments and movements of live fish at the Wanapum Dam fishway on the Columbia River in Washington State. In this study, the Juvenile Salmon Acoustic Telemetry System (JSATS) was selected because of its high carrier frequency (416.7 kHz) and short signal duration yielding good system resilience in shallow, noisy, and constrained environments.

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Restoring Ecological Connectivity in Rivers to Improve Conditions for Anadromous Brown Trout (Salmo trutta)

Greenberg

Calles

2010

Salmonid Fisheries

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Intact ecological connectivity involves open exchange pathways for matter, energy and organisms along longitudinal, vertical, lateral and temporal axes. For salmonids, intact longitudinal conductivity ensures that fish can migrate between habitats, and intact vertical connectivity fosters development of favourable intragravel environments for incubating embryos. Here, we present an overview of our studies of vertical and longitudinal connectivity as they relate to the different life stages of anadromous brown trout in regulated rivers. Our studies of vertical connectivity have shown that changes in surface discharge were more tightly coupled to changes in the intra-gravel environment or hyporheic zone in an unregulated river than in two regulated rivers. In terms of oxygen conditions for incubating brown trout eggs, conditions were more favourable in the unregulated river than in the regulated rivers, with the poorest conditions in the river being lack of minimum flow requirements. Our studies of longitudinal connectivity have examined both upstream and downstream migration of anadromous trout through two nature-like passageways at Finsjö in the River Emån, southern Sweden. On the basis of telemetry and PIT-tag studies, we found that passage efficiency was high, ranging from 89 to 100%. Attraction efficiencies for the passageways were more variable, ranging from 50 to 89%, depending on passageway and year. Densities of brown trout upstream of the passageways were higher in two of the four years after the passageways were built than during pre-passageway years or in other sections of the river. An average of 51% of the downstream-migrating smolts and 57% of the kelts swam past both dams at Finsjö, and 15% of the smolts reached the Baltic Sea. Further remedial measures, particularly for downstream migrants, are needed to attain a fully intact longitudinal connectivity that operates for both upstream and downstream migrants.

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The Use of Electromyogram Telemetry to Estimate Energy Expenditure of Adult Fall Chinook Salmon

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Determination of Swimming Speeds and Energetic Demands of Upriver Migrating Fall Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus Tshawytscha) in the Klickitat River, Washington.

Determination of Swimming Speeds and Energetic Demands of Upriver Migrating Fall Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus Tshawytscha) in the Klickitat River, Washington.

Performance of an acoustic telemetry system in a large fishway

Restoring Ecological Connectivity in Rivers to Improve Conditions for Anadromous Brown Trout (Salmo trutta)

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