MATOS - Mid-Atlantic Acoustic Telemetry Observation System

Project Title: Estuarine use of the Piscataqua River/Great Bay System by shortnose and Atlantic sturgeon

MATOS Project Code: PISCSTG

Data Type: Data

Project Duration: April 2010 - on-going

Project Description: Researchers studying horseshoe crabs in New Hampshire’s Great Bay incidentally detected coastal migrating shortnose sturgeon females on their way to spawning sites in the Kennebec River. This initiated interest in sturgeon presence in the Piscataqua River, particularly as it intersected the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. Although no fish were captured during brief, algae-clogged attempts, coastal migrants from the four ongoing Gulf of Maine sturgeon study rivers routinely show up in the Piscataqua System and its tributaries. This element of this investigation e study is in its final year. Remaining tasks within the system will be linked to the exploration of coastal movements of both shortnose and Atlantic sturgeons including renewed study projects throughout the Gulf of Maine.

Principal Investigator:	Micah Kieffer (Conte Anadromous Fish Research Laboratory)
Email:	mkieffer@usgs.gov

Point of Contact:	Micah Kieffer
Email:	mkieffer@usgs.gov

Citations:

Kieffer, M. 2010

USGS Piscataqua River sturgeon