Helping Shad upstream in SC


	Helping Shad upstream in SC

ruralart

4-30-2008 12:53 PM

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shad, fish, conservation, rivers

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/5690ceb9-9a3e-4347-9171-bdf55ec96a51/ACF64546-7B12-4192-BD2F-AE195B144C19/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.thestate.com/154/story/390684.html" href="http://www.thestate.com/154/story/390684.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.thestate.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thestate.com/154/story/390684.html"><H1>Shad shocked, chauffeured</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thestate.com/154/story/390684.html"><H2>Crews help fish bypass dam, continue journey upstream</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thestate.com/154/story/390684.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.thestate.com/img/7513CEE9-9342-40ED-8087-D54716E238C0" alt="Gerry Melendez/gmelendez@thestate.com<br />S.C. Department of Natural Resource officials catch shad in front of the Augusta Canal dam Tuesday. The fish ladder that usually allows shad to slip around the dam and go upstream on the Savannah River is broken, so Natural Resources officials from South Carolina and Georgia are giving the fish a hand. Officials gave the water in front of the dam a series of electrical shocks, which stun the fish and make them easier to catch. The fish were then scooped" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thestate.com/154/story/390684.html"><DIV class="imageCaption">S.C. Department of Natural Resource officials catch shad in front of the Augusta Canal dam Tuesday. The fish ladder that usually allows shad to slip around the dam and go upstream on the Savannah River is broken, so Natural Resources officials from South Carolina and Georgia are giving the fish a hand. Officials gave the water in front of the dam a series of electrical shocks, which stun the fish and make them easier to catch. The fish were then scooped up and released around the dam so they can swim upstream to spawn.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thestate.com/154/story/390684.html"><P>It was the most unusual mile among thousands of miles of travel and the most unusual day in a four-year journey for 362 shad.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thestate.com/154/story/390684.html"><P>The American shad’s life cycle begins in the shoals of coastal rivers, builds with a trip to Canada’s Bay of Fundy and ends back at the same river shoals. For the thousands that returned to the Savannah River this year, the trip ended about 15 miles short.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/ACF64546-7B12-4192-BD2F-AE195B144C19/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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