Researchers at the University of Maine are using a $400,000 three year grant to study the survival of endangered Atlantic Salmon moving upstream in the Penobscot River as adults and moving downstream into the ocean as juveniles.
“Trying to understand the connectivity in the life history for these fish and certainly looking at that in the context of dams as impediments for movement in terms of delay as well as in terms of survival,” says Joe Zydlewski, a professor in the department of wildlife fisheries and conservation biology at the University of Maine.
He says researchers will be using radio and acoustic telemetry to better understand where fish end up having troubles in the river and where mortality happens.
