Fish passage reference database available on the web

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Updated: 06/15/2012 08:01:55 AM PDT

Department of Fish and Game biologists, managers, engineers and others have
a new tool for fisheries management.

It is an online database of citations of current and historic literature on
the technical aspects of fish passage including engineering, biology, design
and other relevant disciplines.

The American Society of Civil Engineers Environmental and Water Resources
Institute (ASCE/EWRI)-American Fisheries Society Bioengineering Section
(AFS/BES) Partnership Development Ad Hoc Committee announced the
availability of the Joint EWRI-AFS Fish Passage Reference Database last week
at Fish Passage 2012, a national meeting in Massachusetts.

The EWRI-AFS Partnership Development Ad Hoc Committee, chaired by DFG
Engineer Marcin Whitman (AFS member, '93), has created this database as part
of its goal to develop initiatives for new projects to facilitate the
transfer of fish passage information and technology.

The database includes compilations of existing literature databases and
bibliographies from multiple sources, both published and unpublished (i.e.,
reports, gray literature). It is intended to be a clearinghouse for new
literature as it becomes available.

The database will provide a resource for use by fishery biologists,
managers, engineers and people in both the public and private sectors
seeking information about fish passage.

This database represents many hours of work by the committee as well as
fiscal donations by ASCE, the Bureau of Reclamation, University of
Massachusetts and others, said Whitman. This group has been the
highest-performing professional volunteer group I have ever worked with and
we hope this will serve as a useful resource to promote fish passage.

The database can be accessed via scholarworks.umass.edu/fishpassage
<http://scholarworks.umass.edu/fishpassage/> . Database users may search for
citations (many with accompanying abstracts) using author, journal and/or
subject keywords, and may add new citations to the database through the
Scholarworks web portal.

To enhance the effectiveness of the database and its repository function,
practitioners in fish passage can also add records to the database using the
author's corner on the Fish Passage Reference Database website.

Support for the database was provided by the University of Massachusetts
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the U.S. Bureau of
Reclamation Hydraulic Investigations and Laboratory Services Group, the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service (Region 5) and the U.S. Geological Survey S.O.
Conte Anadromous Fish Research Laboratory.

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