SPOTLIGHT: Movement of White Sturgeon in the Federal Columbia River Power System

Peter Stevens, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife – How Many Roads Must a Sturgeon Walk Down? Movement of White Sturgeon in the Federal Columbia River Power System

Peter Stevens will discuss how a long-term dataset of tagged White Sturgeon was used to examine sturgeon movements up and downstream within the Federal Columbia River Power System (FCRPS). This study used multi-state mark-recapture modeling with group co-variates to determine:

1) rates of inter-pool movement,

2) directionality of movement and

3) the physical mechanisms driving directional movement between pools.