MATOS - Mid-Atlantic Acoustic Telemetry Observation System

Project Title: Migration Ecology of River Herring in the Chesapeake Bay

MATOS Project Code: cbrivers24

Data Type: Data

Project Duration: December 2023 - on-going

Project Description: In this project we are assessing the migration ecology of river herring (alewife and blueback herring) in the Chesapeake Bay. River herring are a valuable ecological, economic, and cultural resource, but populations have declined to < 2% of their historical abundance. Rebuilding river herring populations has been identified as a high priority goal by private landowners, non-governmental organizations, and state agencies in the Chesapeake Bay region. We are using acoustic telemetry to track individual fish during their full annual migration between freshwater and ocean habitats in three river systems – Patapsco River, Potomac River, Rappahannock River.

Principal Investigator:	Henry Legett (Smithsonian Environmental Research Center)
Email:	LegettH@si.edu

Point of Contact:	Henry Legett
Email:	LegettH@si.edu

Collaborators:

Jack Ryan (Rappahannock Tribe of Virginia)
T. Reid Nelson (George Mason University)

SERC Chesapeake Bay Rivers Array