Behavioral attributes of turbine entrainment risk for adult resident fish revealed by acoustic telemetry and state-space modeling

Animal Biotelemetry

Steven J Cooke⁵  Michael Power⁷  David A Patterson⁶  Alf Leake¹  David Z Zhu²  Ian D Jonsen³  Joanna E Mills Flemming⁴  Philip M Harrison⁷  Lee F G Gutowsky⁵  Eduardo G Martins⁵ 

[1]Environmental and Social Issues, BC Hydro, 6911 Southpoint Drive, Burnaby, BC V3N 4X8, Canada

[2]Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta, 9105 116th Street, Edmonton, AB T6G 2W2, Canada

[3]Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Balaclava Road, North Ryde, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia

[4]Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Dalhousie University, 6316 Coburg Road, PO Box 15000, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2, Canada

[5]Fish Ecology and Conservation Physiology Laboratory, Ottawa Carleton Institute for Biology, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada

[6]Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Cooperative Resource Management Institute, School of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University, 5555 University Drive, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada

[7]Department of Biology, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada

关键词: Turbine entrainment;    State-space model;    Movement ecology;    Hydropower;    Forebay;    Code division multiple access;    Bull trout;    Behavioral ecology;    Acoustic telemetry;   

Others  :  1082151
DOI  :  10.1186/2050-3385-2-13

 received in 2014-04-09, accepted in 2014-07-07,  发布年份 2014

【 摘 要 】

Background

Fish entrainment through turbine intakes is one of the major issues for operators of hydropower facilities because it causes injury and/or mortality and adversely affects population abundance. Entrainment reduction strategies have been developed based on the behavior of downstream migrating fishes, particularly diadromous species. However, knowledge of the behavior of migratory fishes has very limited application for reducing the entrainment of resident fishes, including several species that represent important recreational and aboriginal fishery resources in reservoirs. In this study, we used fine-scale acoustic telemetry and state-space modeling to investigate behavioral attributes associated with entrainment risk of resident adult bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus) in a large hydropower reservoir in British Columbia, Canada.

Results

We found that adult bull trout resided longer in the vicinity of the powerhouse and moved closer to the turbine intakes in the fall and particularly in the winter. Bull trout were more likely to engage in exploratory behavior (characteristic of foraging or reduced activity) during periods when their body temperature was lower or higher than 6°C. We also detected diel changes in behavioral attributes, with bull trout distance to intakes and probability of exploratory behavior slightly increasing at night.

Conclusions

We hypothesize that the exploratory behavior in the forebay is associated with foraging for kokanee (nonanadromous form of Oncorhynchus nerka), which have been shown to congregate near the dams of hydropower reservoirs in the winter. Our study findings should be applicable to bull trout populations residing in other reservoirs and indicate that entrainment mitigation (for example, use of deterrent devices) should be focused on the fall and winter. This work also provides a framework for combining acoustic telemetry and state-space models to understand and categorize movement behavior of fish in reservoirs and, more generally, in any environment with fluctuating water levels.

【 授权许可】

   
2014 Martins et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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