A "sill" (low-lying dam) on the Pearl River at Poole's Bluff blocks fish
migration during times of low water. Unseasonably high river levels were
a challenge to project leaders while they worked to design a system that would allow fish to move past the sill to spawning grounds
farther upstream. |
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Date: Aug 6, 2003
Event: GMF Site Visit
Project: NOAA CRP #1003
"Fisheries Habitat Restoration in the Pearl River"
Location: Lake Pontchartrain Basin, Louisiana
Photo by Carrie Robertson/
Gulf of Mexico Foundation
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