Initiated in 1999
For more information contact
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Raleigh Ecological Services Office
551-F Pylon Drive
P.O. Box 33726
Raleigh, NC 27636
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This project included
an engineering design and feasibility report that will support prescriptions
to eliminate impediments to fish passage imposed by the Kerr, Roanoke
Rapids, and Gaston Dams on the Roanoke River. This series of dams
currently blocks access to almost 1,000 mainstem river miles of
spawning and nursery habitat for alewife, blueback herring, American
shad, American eel, hickory shad, striped bass, Atlantic sturgeon,
and shortnose sturgeon. The
Service's mandate to prescribe fishways under the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission (FERC) relicensing process precludes direct
involvement by other partners. |
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