Detailed project information for Study Plan Number 08027

Branch :	Northern Appalachian Research Laboratory
Study Plan Number :	08027
Study Title :	Modelling habitat quality and impact of dam removal on the restoration of Alosinesand other Diadromous fishes to the Susquehanna River
Starting Date :	10/01/1998
Completion Date :	09/30/2005
Principal Investigator(s) :	Ross, Robert M.
Primary PI :	Ross, Robert M.
Telephone Number :	(570) 724-3322 x239
Email Address :	rossr@usgs.gov
SIS Number :	5003694
Primary Program Element :	Fisheries and Aquatic Resources
Second Program Element :	Fish and Aquatic Habitats
Status :	Completed
Abstract :	The Susquehanna River is one of the longest non-navigable rivers in North America and Chesapeake Bays largest tributary, providing 50% of all the fresh water to the largest estuary in the United States. Four hydropower dams, and hundreds of smaller dams on tributaries in Pennsylvania and Maryland, interrupt the natural life cycles of American shad (Alosa sapidissima), striped bass (Morone saxatilis), American eel (Anguilla rostrata), blueback herring (Alosa aestivalis), and alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus), resulting in severe population declines. As a result, there had been no American shad fishery on the Susquehanna River since 1928. In some cases in the United States dams have been or will be breached where their hydropower generation has become ineffective or where deemed a lesser benefit to society than the fisheries and recreation they preclude.
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