Dredging activity and associated sound have negligible effects on adult Atlantic sturgeon migration to spawning habitat in a large coastal river

Autor:	Greg C. Garman, Michael Barber, Kevin J. Reine, Matthew Balazik, Aaron J. Bunch, Safra Altman, Alan Katzenmeyer
Jazyk:	angličtina
Rok vydání:	2020
Předmět:	0106 biological sciences Sexual Reproduction Physiology Endangered species Social Sciences Marine and Aquatic Sciences 01 natural sciences Medicine and Health Sciences Psychology Marine Fish Sound (geography) Multidisciplinary geography.geographical_feature_category biology Animal Behavior Fishes Eukaryota Freshwater Fish Sound Osteichthyes Vertebrates Freshwater fish Medicine Atlantic sturgeon Research Article Freshwater Environments Animal Navigation Spawning Spawning habitat Science Modes of Reproduction Sturgeons Marine Biology 010603 evolutionary biology Dredging Rivers Animals Swimming Ecosystem Fish migration geography Behavior Biological Locomotion 010604 marine biology & hydrobiology Ecology and Environmental Sciences Endangered Species Organisms Biology and Life Sciences Aquatic Environments Water Bodies of Water biology.organism_classification Life stage Fishery Fish Earth Sciences Environmental science Animal Migration Zoology Developmental Biology
Zdroj:	PLoS ONE, Vol 15, Iss 3, p e0230029 (2020) PLoS ONE
ISSN:	1932-6203
Popis:	Dredging is considered a major threat/impedance to anadromous fish migrating to spawning habitat. Due to the perceived threat caused by dredging, environmental windows that restrict dredge operations are enforced within many rivers along the east coast. However, it is generally unknown how anadromous fish react to encountering an active dredge during spawning migrations. Atlantic sturgeon (ATS) are an endangered, anadromous species along the Atlantic slope of North America. To determine if and how an active dredge may affect ATS spawning migration, a Vemco Positioning System array was deployed around an active hydraulic-cutterhead dredge that adult ATS must traverse to reach spawning habitat in the James River, VA. Telemetry data showed that all ATS that entered the study area survived. ATS that migrated upstream during dredge operations (N = 103) traversed the dredge area and continued upstream to spawning habitat. Many ATS made multiple trips through the study area during dredge operations. There was no noticeable difference in swim behavior regardless of whether the dredge was absent or working within the study area. We suggest that dredging in the lower James River does not create a barrier for adult ATS migrating to spawning habitat or cause adults to significantly modify swim behavior. This is the first study to utilize fine-scale telemetry data to describe how an organism moves in relation to an active dredge. This methodology could be used to describe dredge-sturgeon interactions on different life stages and in other locations and could be expanded to other aquatic organisms of concern.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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