EESC in the News: Tracking trout on the Deerfield
Data collected, scientists now set out to gauge how flows affect the river’s wild browns
Data collected, scientists now set out to gauge how flows affect the river’s wild browns
By Eastern Ecological Science Center
May 5, 2022
By Michael Vito
May 5, 2022
For the past two-plus years, TU’s Deerfield River Watershed Chapter members and community volunteers have been tracking the movements of 30 brown trout carrying surgically implanted radio transmitters.
"The collected brown trout telemetry data are being analyzed by the chapter’s partners at the USGS Eastern Ecological Science Center, part of the Silvio O. Conte Research Laboratory in Turners Falls, Mass.
The USGS biologists are studying the data to determine if there are impacts on tagged trout from daily hydro-peaking flows, which fluctuate from high levels during power generation to low levels when generation is not occurring."
Click here to read the story on the Trout Unlimited website.