Data for Evaluation of a broadband sound projected from the gates of a navigation lock in the Mississippi River shows it to be a weak deterrent for common carp and unable to block passage

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https://hdl.handle.net/11299/226079

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invasive species

bigheaded carp

lock and dam

sound deterrent

behavior

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2017-07-11
2018-08-17

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2021-08-25

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Data for Evaluation of a broadband sound projected from the gates of a navigation lock in the Mississippi River shows it to be a weak deterrent for common carp and unable to block passage

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2022-01-19

Authors

Riesgraf, Andrew T.

Finger, Jean S.

Zielinski, Daniel P.

Dennis III, Clark E.

Whitty, Jeff M.

Sorensen, Peter W.

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University of Minnesota - Minnesota Aquatic Invasive Species Research Center

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Sorensen, Peter W.
soren003@umn.edu

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Field Study Data

Abstract

There is an urgent need to block the passage of carp and other invasive fishes through navigational locks in large rivers. Although the broadband sound of an outboard motor has been shown to strongly repel three species of carp in laboratory flumes and to a lesser extent inside of a lock chamber, it has not yet been tested to see if it can stop carp from entering a lock. To test this possibility, we attached speakers to lock gates and played the sound of an outboard motor while measuring its efficacy by tracking free-ranging transplanted tagged common carp in its vicinity. Eight groups of 20 carp were tested while the sound system was turned on and off for 2 week periods. When the sound system was on, these carp spent approximately one-third less time in front of the gates than when it was off which when modeled by GLMM was shown to no greater than the effects of river discharge or temperature. Further, there was no indication that this sound blocked carp from entering and presumably passing through the lock. However, the number of times that tagged carp entered the lock was low even when the sound was off. A number of factors may have contributed to the limited efficacy of this deterrent system including the sound itself.

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Riesgraf AT, Finger JS, Zielinski DP, Dennis III CE, Whitty JM, Sorensen PW (2022) Evaluation of a broadband sound projected from the gates of a navigation lock in the Mississippi River shows it to be a weak deterrent for common carp and unable to block passage. Management of Biological Invasions (2022) Volume 13, Issue 1: 220–232.
https://doi.org/10.3391/mbi.2022.13.1.13

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Funding for this project was provided by the Minnesota Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund as well as the Minnesota Outdoor Heritage Fund via the MN DNR. A Twin Cities boy scout troop generously donated funds to pay for the sound deterrent speakers. Lastly, the Minnesota Aquatic Invasive Species Research Center (MAISRC) funded the journal publication.

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Riesgraf, Andrew T.; Finger, Jean S.; Zielinski, Daniel P.; Dennis III, Clark E.; Whitty, Jeff M.; Sorensen, Peter W.. (2022). Data for Evaluation of a broadband sound projected from the gates of a navigation lock in the Mississippi River shows it to be a weak deterrent for common carp and unable to block passage. Retrieved from the Data Repository for the University of Minnesota (DRUM), https://doi.org/10.13020/s690-4824.

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