Biological monitoring. Part V, Preference and avoidance studies /
Although the literature on preference and avoidance and other types of fish behavior (and to lesser extent of other aquatic organisms) is abundant, little industrial and regulatory interest in this subject is apparent. Two factors could change this situation: (a) An extension of U.S. legislation (an...
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| Alternate Title: | Biological monitoring. Part 5, Preference and avoidance studies |
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| Additional Author(s): | Cairns, John, 1923- |
| Report Numbers: | SUS 363 |
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| Summary: | Although the literature on preference and avoidance and other types of fish behavior (and to lesser extent of other aquatic organisms) is abundant, little industrial and regulatory interest in this subject is apparent. Two factors could change this situation: (a) An extension of U.S. legislation (and that of other countries) of Section 316 of U.S. Public Law 92-500 from heated waste waters discharges to include chemicals. Essentially, such legislation provided for obtaining variances to state and federal legislation on the basis of site-specific evidence that no harm will result to the indigenous biota. In short, permission to make fuller use of the nondegrading natural assimilative capacity for industrial wastes would depend on the acquisition of a substantial information base at a particular locale. We have found temperature preference-avoidance and other behavior studies to be essential to the implementation of Section 316 (a) of Public Law 92-500. (b) Greater attention is paid to mixing zones. This term is used in the biological sense of an area in violation of existing standards for the protection of aquatic organisms. If the standards are not met at the point of discharge and a mixing zone is permitted, it would be helpful to show that zones of passage for migratory fish have not been disrupted and that organisms would not be attracted into lethal concentrations of toxic materials and that they would, in fact, avoid these consequences. |
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| Physical Description: | p. 264-301 : ill. ; 28 cm. |
| Notes: | Caption title. |
| Contained In: | Originally published in: Water research Exeter, Devon, England : Pergamon Press, 1982. Vol. 16, no. 3, p. 264-301 |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 294-301). |
| ISSN: | 0043-1354 |