A Habitat Improvement Plan for the Big Sunflower River, Mississippi.
Abstract
Personnel of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks recently expressed concern over the effects of proposed maintenance dredging by the U.S. Army Engineer District, Vicksburg, on freshwater mussels (Family: Unionidae) and their habitat in the Big Sunflower River, Mississippi. Planned maintenance would consist of channel clearing, cleanout, enlargement, and maintenance. Because of these concerns, Vicksburg District personnel modified the original dredging plan to minimize damage to mussels and their habitat. In addition, a Habitat Improvement Team (members of the Team are listed in Table 1) was assembled to review recent findings on mussels, evaluate the effects of dredging, and develop a set of actions that would improve and maintain habitat in river reaches affected by maintenance. These actions would not replace a set of features developed specifically to improve fish habitat (Hoover and Killgore, in preparation).
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 1995
- Accession Number
- ADA302426
Entities
People
- Andrew C. Miller