ISO Adult PIT Interrogation System Installations

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ISO Adult PIT Interrogation System Installations
BPA Project Number 200100300 16 July 2002
www.ptagis.org
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Adult PIT Tag Detection from BON to LGR

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Project Goal

• Install PIT tag detection capability at counting
  windows at key dams in the Columbia River Basin.
• 2002/03 The Dalles, Ice Harbor, Lower Granite
• 2003/04 John Day, Lower Monumental, Little
  Goose
• 2004/05 Counting window at Bonneville
• Provide cost sharing to encourage installation of
  adult detection systems at Priest Rapids, and
  Chandler Canal (first detections past McNary on
  Columbia and Yakima Rivers)

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Team
PSMFC - Electronic Systems Installation and
Project Management USACE Structural,
Electrical and Communication Infrastructure NMFS
Technical Program Support and Evaluation BPA
Coordination, Management Funding Digital Angel
Electronic System Components
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Installation Model
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Installation Options
Counting Window
Weir and Pool
Vertical Slot
Preferred!
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Issues

• Installations depend upon coordination with U.S.
  Army Corps of Engineers for
• Funding
• Project Planning
• Infrastructure Installation
• Currently no consensus on Weir and Pool,
  Counting Window or Vertical Slot
  implementations.
• Fish are missed in Weir and Pool systems
• Counting windows have been proven, but no two are
  the same!
• Vertical slots have not been proven some
  technical issues remain to be resolved

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Summary

• Weir and Pool systems successfully deployed at
  Bonneville and McNary last winter and are
  providing good data this year.
• A Counting Window prototype was successfully
  deployed at the McNary, Oregon Shore fish ladder
  last winter and is providing good data this year.
• Douglas County PUD contracted with PSMFC / PTAGIS
  to install adult detection system at Wells Dam
  last winter. Good data being provided.

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ISO Adult PIT Interrogation System Installations
BPA Project Number 200100300 16 July 2002
www.ptagis.org