Relationships among the Fish Passage Efficiency, Fish Swimming Behavior, and Hydraulic Properties in a Vertical-Slot Fishway
FISHERIES MANAGEMENT AND ECOLOGY(2024)
Abstract
Three-dimensional hydrodynamic numerical simulation and laboratory fish-passage experiment with juvenile grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella) were used to systematically estimate hydrodynamic parameters, fish passage efficiency, fish swimming behavior, and fish swimming trajectories in a vertical-slot fishway (VSF) under five different flow discharges. The spatial-mean time-averaged velocity magnitude along the slot section determined passage success rate. The absolute value of the time-averaged Reynolds-shear-stress component in the X-Y direction played a decisive role in selecting the swimming path. In addition, fish energy expenditure along the mean-50% swimming route indicated that higher mainstream velocity did not necessarily signify larger energy consumption, because successfully-migrating fish selected the relatively lower velocity zone during the migration process. Our findings for fish swimming behavior in response to velocity and turbulence can be used to develop high-efficiency fishways for grass carps or other species with similar traits.
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Key words
fish swimming trajectory,hydrodynamic characteristics,passage success rate,Reynolds shear stress,turbulent kinetic energy,vertical-slot fishway
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