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Blue Sucker (Cycleptus elongatus)
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Water Diversion and Endangered
Species
In 1998 and again in
2004, Biotactic, Inc. was retained for a telemetric
assessment of blue sucker (Cycleptus elongatus)
spawning behaviour and habitat use as part of a water
diversion environmental assessment. This work was
carried out in association with Espey-Huston and
Associates, and Bio-West Inc., Austin, Texas. Forty blue suckers were caught by
boat electrofishing in riffles, implanted with transmitters and released back into the Lower Colorado
River, between Austin and the Gulf of Mexico. Thirty
blue suckers will be monitored with fixed receiving
stations, boat tracking and airplane tracking until the
end of 2007.
CLICK
HERE to see fish tracking
pictures from 2004 - 2007
  
  
Wavy-Rayed Lampmussel (Lampsilis fasciola)
BRAVO Network Monitoring Program
In 2006 we began a long-term endangered freshwater
mussel monitoring program with the Department of Fisheries
and Oceans Canada. This project uses our
BRAVO
underwater monitoring network to transmit and record
interactions between wavy-rayed lampmussels and obligate
fish hosts in the Grand River, Ontario. To learn
more, click
HERE.
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