The Fisheries Blog was started in 2011 by a group of scientists who are professional fisheries scientists by day and communicators of scientific information by night. In a recent post, they speak to Henry Jackson, the executive director of the Chattahoochee River Conservancy, about Georgia Power’s surrender of two FERC licenses for low-head dams on the middle Chattahoochee.
Important new research comparing methods of assessing fish movement through culverts…. https://www.tu.org/blog/monitoring-fish-movement-is-a-vital-conservation-tool/ Doug Peterson, a biologist at the Fish and Wildlife Service, and Helen Neville, Trout Unlimited’s Senior Scientist, aim to provide this much-needed guidance in a recent paper in the North American Journal of Fisheries Management. In a field study across four streams in Montana and Idaho, commissioned by the U.S. Forest Service’s Aquatic Organism Passage Program, Peterson and Neville compared the relative performance and cost of four different approaches…