INTRODUCTION 

 This proposal addresses questions inherent in the 

 development of the Boylan Fish Transport System from the 

 perspective of effects on fish quality. If Endangered Species 

 Recovery Teams or the fishery management agencies determine that 

 this concept should be tried, then the proposed evaluation 

 program becomes necessary. Th« design of th« syntca neada to be 

 harmonious with tha overall goal of banafltlng stocks of wild 

 fish. The efficacy of this system in improving out-migrant 

 survivorship will have to be determined. We envision that such 

 an evaluation of the fish will require four phases (the four 

 phases of this fish evaluation proposal should not be confused 

 with the four phases described in the overall project 

 construction proposal; our phases are subsumed within them) . 



The first phase of the evaluation is to create the design of 

 the scientific testing protocol within the scope of engineering 

 potentialities and limitations. In other words, some engineering 

 questions will need to be answered before a test system can be 

 constructed in order to make the system "fish friendly." Some 

 experimentation with fish may be necessary to refine answers 

 during this phase. 



The second phase of the study concerns an evaluation of a 

 scaled-down version of the system to allow assessment of whether 

 or not the attributes of concern affect the general quality or 

 health of outmigrating salmonids. Should the results of the 

 first two phases be positive, then the third phase of the 

 evaluation could be implemented. 



