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Contents <br />Fish Species <br />Number <br />Mortality <br />Survival <br />0 hrs <br />96 hrs <br /># Survive <br />% Survival <br />Inserted <br />Bluegill (33 mm) <br />100 <br />0 <br />0 <br />100 <br />100 <br />Bluegill (33 mm) <br />100 <br />0 <br />0 <br />100 <br />100 <br />Bluegill 33 mm <br />100 <br />0 <br />0 <br />100 <br />100 <br />Total <br />300 <br />0 <br />0 <br />300 <br />100 <br />Fathead Minnow (50 mm) <br />200 <br />0 <br />0 <br />200 <br />100 <br />Fathead Minnow (50 mm) <br />200 <br />0 <br />0 <br />200 <br />100 <br />Fathead Minnow 50 mm) <br />200 <br />0 <br />0 <br />200 <br />100 <br />Total <br />600 <br />0 <br />0,.- ;;.•:,, <br />600 <br />100 <br />Rainbow Trout Eggs <br />1,000 <br />0 <br />2 <br />X98 <br />99.8 <br />Rainbow Trout eggs <br />1,000 <br />0 <br />1 <br />999, <br />99.9 <br />Rainbow Trout Eggs <br />1,000 <br />Q -- <br />4 <br />996 ;- <br />99.6 <br />Total <br />3000 <br />0 <br />7 <br />2,993 ` <br />99.77 <br />At the reservoir elev titth of $t3S; ft, a total ttf,10 trials weiiperformed using 100 live 0 -plus <br />bluegill (mean TL 33 mm, meari 4Fight 10.2311 t }per' trial Total' length bluegill measurements <br />ranged from 23 to 45 mm. No bluagill escaped -the- injection process. Each replicate was <br />injected into the discharge.pipe upstream of the sleeve valve to test the effectiveness to eliminate <br />0 -plus -- b1*901: (33, mm meafi,l survival at -a pressure of approximately 41 psi. The sleeve <br />valve ate" butterfly °Salve were rti0 ually opened'and closed for each trial but the discharge pipe <br />was �lbwly re- pressurized using th 4 in valves fo Jevery trial to allow the bluegill to adjust their <br />gas bladdetto the test depth," <br />For trial 1, one - bluegill (34 mm), was found alive in the spillway still breathing after sleeve valve <br />passage but was'66,1ts side and aiotionless and died before 96 hrs after sleeve valve passage. <br />For trial 2, seven blu ill wtt� 6und alive and breathing in the entrainment nets immediately <br />after sleeve valve passage: Five bluegill (32, 32, 32, 35, 30 mm) died at 96 hrs after sleeve valve <br />passage and all had internal hemorrhaging however; two (32 and 40 mm) survived through 96 <br />hrs but were not upright and also had internal hemorrhaging. <br />For trial 3, a total of 17 bluegill were found alive immediately after sleeve valve passage where <br />all 17 were collected in the entrainment nets. One bluegill died at 24 hrs (37 mm), 4 died at 72 <br />hrs (29, 37, 31, 30 mm) and 4 died at 96 hrs (27, 30, 32, 30 mm). Eight bluegill were still <br />Page 34 <br />