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TASKS 

 We will need to work with project engineers and others as 

 appropriate to answer the following questions. Answers to these 

 questions may have already been determined by the Boylan- 

 Woodworth-Lloyd project team; these can be deleted from this 

 proposal and the answers used in the design of phase 2. Where 

 answers are unavailable, they will be answered by research 

 proposed in this proposal (phase 2) . Answers to many of these 

 questions are germane to other present and proposed fish passage 

 and transport systems as well. The questions that immediately 

 come to mind as "seen through the eyes" of biologists are as 

 follows and are in no particular order. 



1. Fish collection or by-pass systems are proposed to be used to 

 get fish through the dams. If it turns out that dam by-pass 

 systems have a major effect on smolts (we believe that this is 

 so) , then will exposing the fish to multiple by-passings as the 

 fish encounter each dam in relatively rapid succession cause 

 cumulative stressful experiences? How will the fish be delivered 

 into existing collection systems in a non-stressful manner? What 

 proposals are offered to help the fish negotiate dams that 

 presently do not have collection/ by-pass systems; how will the 

 fish be transported over or through these dams in a non-stressful 

 fashion (e.g., what kind of plumbing, pressure changes, etc.)? 

 Research on multiple entering, exiting, and dam by-passing may be 

 needed. Since temperature is a major controlling factor for 



