Status and Habitat Requirements of White Sturgeon Populations in the Columbia River Downstream from McNary Dam, 1989-1990 Annual Report.

Technical Report · Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 1990

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6301384· OSTI ID:6301384

Nigro, Anthony A ^[1]

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1. Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, Portland, OR

We report on our progress from April 1989 through March 1990 on determining the status and habitat requirements of white sturgeon populations in the Columbia River downstream from McNary Dam. The study is a cooperative effort by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW), Washington Department of Fisheries (WDF), US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS). Study objectives addressed by each agency are to describe the life history and population dynamics of subadults and adults between Bonneville and McNary dams and evaluate the need and identify potential methods for protecting, mitigating and enhancing populations downstream from McNary Dam, to describe the white sturgeon recreational fishery between Bonneville and McNary dams, describe reproductive and early life history characteristics downstream from Bonneville Dam and describe life history and population dynamics of subadults and adults downstream from Bonneville Dam, to describe reproduction and early life history characteristics, define habitat requirements for spawning and rearing and quantify extent of habitat available between Bonneville and McNary dams, and to describe reproduction and early life history characteristics, define habitat requirements for spawning and rearing and quantify extent of habitat available downstream from Bonneville Dam. Our approach is to work concurrently downstream and upstream from Bonneville Dam. Upstream from Bonneville Dam we began work in the Dalles Reservoir in 1987 and expanded efforts to Bonneville Reservoir in 1988 and John Day Reservoir in 1989. Highlights from this work is also included. 47 refs., 33 figs., 66 tabs.

• Research Organization: Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), Portland, OR.
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: 1986BP63584
• OSTI ID: 6301384
• Report Number(s): DOE/BP-63584-4; R&D Project: 19860500; ON: DE91006234
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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13 HYDRO ENERGY
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
DAMS
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
FISHES
POPULATION DYNAMICS
POWER GENERATION
BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION
COLUMBIA RIVER BASIN
EXPERIMENTAL DATA
FEDERAL REGION X
HABITAT
HYDROELECTRIC POWER
MIGRATION
PROGRESS REPORT
ANIMALS
AQUATIC ORGANISMS
DATA
DOCUMENT TYPES
ELECTRIC POWER
ENERGY SOURCES
INFORMATION
NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
NORTH AMERICA
NUMERICAL DATA
POWER
RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES
US DOE
US ORGANIZATIONS
USA
VERTEBRATES
White sturgeons - Habitat - Columbia River.
130600* - Hydro Energy- Environmental Aspects
540350 - Environment
Aquatic- Site Resource & Use Studies- (1990-)