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The Historic Influence of Dams on Diadromous Fish Habitat with a Focus on River Herring and Hydrologic Longitudinal Connectivity The historic influence of dams on diadromous fish habitat with a focus on river herring and hydrologic longitudinal connectivity Landscape Ecology ISSN 0921-2973 Volume 26 Number 1 Landscape Ecol (2010) 26:95-107 DOI 10.1007/ s10980-010-9539-1 1 23 Your article is protected by copyright and all rights are held exclusively by Springer Science+Business Media B.V.. This e-offprint is for personal use only and shall not be self- archived in electronic repositories. If you wish to self-archive your work, please use the accepted author’s version for posting to your own website or your institution’s repository. You may further deposit the accepted author’s version on a funder’s repository at a funder’s request, provided it is not made publicly available until 12 months after publication. 1 23 Author's personal copy Landscape Ecol (2011) 26:95–107 DOI 10.1007/s10980-010-9539-1 RESEARCHARTICLE The historic influence of dams on diadromous fish habitat with a focus on river herring and hydrologic longitudinal connectivity Carolyn J. Hall • Adrian Jordaan • Michael G. Frisk Received: 23 February 2010 / Accepted: 1 October 2010 / Published online: 4 November 2010 Ó Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010 Abstract The erection of dams alters habitat and trends allows current restoration targets to be assessed longitudinal stream connectivity for migratory diad- and prioritized within an ecosystem-based perspective romous and potamodromous fish species and interrupts and may inform expectations for future management of much of organismal exchange between freshwater and oceanic and freshwater living resources. marine ecosystems. In the US, this disruption began with colonial settlement in the seventeenth century but Keywords Historical Ecology Gulf of Maine Á Á little quantitative assessment of historical impact on Habitat fragmentation Alewife Blueback herring accessible habitat and population size has been Forage fish EcosystemÁ EnergyÁ flux Restoration Á Á Á Á conducted. We used published surveys, GIS layers targets and historical documents to create a database of 1356 dams, which was then analyzed to determine the historical timeline of construction, use and resultant fragmentation of watersheds in Maine, US. Historical Introduction information on the anadromous river herring was used to determine natural upstream boundaries to migration Widespread species loss and large-scale environmen- and establish total potential alewife spawning habitat tal change over the past 400 years has been well in nine watersheds with historic populations. Dams in documented (Foster et al. 2002; Lotze et al. 2006; Maine were constructed beginning in 1634 and by 1850 Jackson 2008). One prominent environmental change had reduced accessible lake area to less than 5% of the has been the fracturing of coastal watersheds by man- virgin 892 km2 habitat and 20% of virgin stream made obstructions (Dynesius and Nilsson 1994; habitat. There is a near total loss of accessible habitat Humphries and Winemiller 2009). Damming of by 1860 that followed a west-east pattern of European waterways alters the aquatic environment and sur- migration and settlement. Understanding historic rounding landscape through sedimentation, channel- ization, flooding and temperature changes (Poff et al. 1997; Poff and Hart 2002; Walter and Merritts 2008). Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s10980-010-9539-1) contains Passage of aquatic migratory species between feeding supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. and spawning sites is interrupted, as is the exchange of nutrients among ecosystems (Kline et al. 1990; Bilby C. J. Hall (&) A. Jordaan M. G. Frisk et al. 1996; Walters et al. 2009). Subsequent habitat School of MarineÁ and AtmosphericÁ Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-5000, USA and population loss leads to alteration of foodwebs, e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected] loss of biodiversity, species decline and extirpation 123 Author's personal copy 96 Landscape Ecol (2011) 26:95–107 (Pringle et al. 2000; Jackson et al. 2001; Pess et al. provided (Baird 1883; Ames 2004). By 1870, State 2008; Morita et al. 2009). An understanding of the Fish Commissioners concluded that dam construction historical condition of ecosystems before significant was the principal cause of migratory fish extinction anthropogenic impact is required to assess restoration from Maine’s waterways (Atkins and Foster 1868) targets, yet landscape studies and ecological baselines and 20 years later estimated that only 10% of original are often lacking historical perspective or use incom- habitat remained available for spawning (Atkins plete data (Wu et al. 2003). Historical data is needed 1887). Current diadromous species’ populations are to empirically evaluate the loss of habitat connectivity at historic lows with some at less than 1% of early in relation to species presence and ecosystem function nineteenth century estimations (Lotze and Milewski over centuries to effectively apply conservation and 2004; Saunders et al. 2006). Presently, river herring restoration methods (Haila 2002). and Atlantic sturgeon are listed as species of concern In the northeastern U.S., concentrated commercial and Atlantic salmon as an endangered species (Fed- fishing, forestry, agriculture and damming of river- eral Register 2006). Thus, efforts to provide long-term ways began altering the condition of river ecosystems solutions through population and watershed restora- with the arrival of European colonists in the seven- tion are of immediate importance, yet no comprehen- teenth century. Unfortunately, reliable records of sive attempts have been made to assess virgin habitat watershed conditions and fish harvests were not kept baselines or thoroughly document the long-term scale until the formation of Federal and State Fish Commis- of habitat destruction these species have endured. sions in the 1860s (Atkins and Foster 1868; Judd 1997). Historical records of dam construction can present a Previous to these records were numerous mentions of timeline of stream and landscape alteration and colonial mill dams obstructing the migration of physical impediment of spawning diadromous species. spawning fishes including river herring [collectively Here we estimate the loss of accessible freshwater alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus) and blueback herring habitat within Maine from 1600 to 1900 due to dam (Alosa aestivalis)], shad (Alosa sapidissima), Atlantic obstruction. First, we present a spatial and temporal salmon (Salmo salar) and Atlantic sturgeon (Acipenser analysis of dam construction from the seventeenth oxyrinchus) (Anonymous 3/26/1798; Moody 1933, through the nineteenth century. Second, we quantita- pp 445–446). After the construction of the first saw mill tively present an analysis of accessible migratory and dam in Maine in 1634 (Pope 1965, p. 219), hundreds of spawning area, both stream and lake habitat, impacted small dams appeared statewide wherever natural by the erection of dams over time with river herring as waterfalls and topography provided an area of our example ‘‘species.’’ Current river herring habitat impoundment and the vertical height required to status and coastal watersheds will be evaluated in light generate mechanical energy (Moody 1933, p. 332; of the historical baseline determined for the state of Clark 1970, p. 336). In 1829 it was estimated that 1,686 Maine and related to restoration of stream networks principal manufacturing establishments, primarily and ecosystem connectivity. mills, depended upon water-power (Greenleaf 1829, p. 451). Forty years later, over 3,100 sites in use or potentially suitable for harnessing water-power were Materials and methods documented in Maine (Wells 1869). The species listed above are diadromous, crossing River herring life history the ocean-freshwater boundary to complete spawning, and provided abundant resources to historical local River herring are a mid-trophic level species that prey diets and commercial fisheries along the Gulf of primarily on zooplankton (Bigelow and Schroeder Maine’s coastal and inland ecosystems (Atkins and 1953). River herring reach reproductive maturity in Foster 1868; Mullen et al. 1986). They also provided a 3–5 years and are iteroparous, or capable of spawning rich forage base for valuable coastal predators and for multiple years, returning to spawn in natal Maine game fish including Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) streams between late April and early July (MDMR (Baird 1872; Graham et al. 2002). Decline of coastal 1982). Alewives historically migrated over 300 km to cod populations has been linked to the loss of the spawning areas in quiet freshwaters of Maine, primar- nutritious and predictable food source these species ily lakes and ponds but also slow sections of streams; 123 Author's personal copy Landscape Ecol (2011) 26:95–107 97 bluebacks prefer riverine habitat up to or near head of watersheds, approximately 60% of our estimated tide with moving water. Both species will spawn below historical range, that were divided amongst three head of tide provided that appropriate habitat is categories: (1) primary river watersheds with exten- available (Bigelow and Schroeder 1953; MDMR sive tributaries totaling a stream distance of 1000 km 1982). For the purpose of this study, measured stream or greater; (2) secondary watersheds with few habitat is defined broadly as accessible habitat for both tributaries totaling less than 1000 km; (3) bay species but is not included in measurable
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