Operational Plan for the Restoration of Diadromous Fishes to the ...

alteration of fish passage facilities or modification of their operation in some manner
to prevent the upstream movement of undesirable species.
Goal, Objectives, and Strategies
Goal: Provide safe, timely, and effective upstream and downstream passage
for diadromous fishes at barriers that restrict access between their historical
habitats in the Penobscot basin.
16.0 Objective: Increase upstream and downstream fish passage effectiveness
at fish passage facilities at mainstem dams 14 within 10 years to ensure
conservation spawning escapement of target restoration species and to
ensure maximum emigration of target restoration species life stages 15 from
freshwater habitats to the ocean.
16.1 Measure: Improve upstream and downstream fish passage
effectiveness at mainstem dams for juvenile and adult Atlantic salmon,
alewife, American shad, and blueback herring within eight years.
16.1.1 Strategy: Review FERC licenses and MPA
16.1.2 Strategy: Review existing studies and information
16.1.3 Strategy: Develop/conduct assessment studies to determine
fish passage effectiveness and develop recommendations for
fish passage improvements
16.1.4 Strategy: Undertake fish passage improvements
16.1.5 Strategy: Assess fish passage improvements
16.2 Measure: Improve upstream and downstream fish passage
effectiveness at mainstem dams for juvenile and adult American eel
within 10 years of the removal of the Veazie and Great Works dams.
16.2.1 Strategy: Review FERC licenses and MPA
16.2.2 Strategy: Review existing studies and information
16.2.3 Strategy: Develop/conduct assessment studies to determine
fish passage effectiveness and develop recommendations for
fish passage improvements
16.2.4 Strategy: Undertake fish passage improvements
16.2.5 Strategy: Assess fish passage improvements
17.0 Objective: Increase upstream and downstream fish passage effectiveness
at fish passage facilities at tributary dams 16 within 40 years to ensure
conservation spawning escapement of target restoration species and to
14
Includes the Milford, West Enfield, and Mattaceunk dams on the mainstem Penobscot River and the Stillwater
and Orono dams on the Stillwater Branch.
15
For example, Atlantic salmon smolts and kelts; juvenile and adult clupeids.
16
Howland, Browns Mill, Moosehead Manufacturing, Guilford, Lowell Tannery, and Frankfort dams
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