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Clues Emerge in Search for Cause of Clues Emerge in Search for Cause of Prespawn Mortality in Local CohoScience SeminarOctober 28, 2010
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Prespawn Mortality (PSM) Phenomenon
• Well-documented in Seattle urban streams• Only impacts coho• Only impacts coho• Strongly correlated to storm events• Marked by set of specific symptoms including:Marked by set of specific symptoms including:▫ Gaping▫ Fin splaying▫ Spasming▫ Disorientation▫ Loss of equilibrium▫ Loss of equilibrium▫ Retain silver color of coho that have not transitioned
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P M t lit B h iPrespawn Mortality BehaviorVideos courtesy of NMFSVideos courtesy of NMFS
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P i S diPrevious Studies• Northwest Marine Fisheries Service(NMFS)• Northwest Marine Fisheries Service(NMFS)• 2002-2009• Annual coho PSM surveys (incidence rate)
F i h i l i l li it d t h i t • Forensic, physiological, limited water chemistry studies
• Timing: Flow, rainfallFi di• Findings▫ Strong correlation with early season storms▫ Water chemistry below WA aquatic life WQS▫ PSM fish appear healthy except for biomarkers of
exposure to metals and petroleum hydrocarbons▫ Unidentified contaminant(s) most likely PSM cause
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King County Study King County Study • Objective - Collect gill tissue, PSM status, and continuous water
chemistry samples over a storm hydrograph during the same season.
• Hypothesis – Hardness drops lower than measured in single grab samples collected during storms, making metal(s) acutely toxic.
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Ki C S d • Sites – Longfellow and Lund’s Gulch Creeks (reference)
King County Study Sites Longfellow and Lund s Gulch Creeks (reference)
• Events – 3 storm, 1 baseline• Samples - Water, gill tissue
Parameters Metals (gills and water) organics • Parameters – Metals (gills and water), organics, conventionals, anionic and cationic nutrients (water)
• Analysis – Compare to WQS, predict toxicity using BLM, statistical testing, relationship between PSM and gill tissue levels.
• Continuous Measurements pH DO temperature • Continuous Measurements pH, DO, temperature, conductivity, flow
• Observations – Coho alive and dead count, egg status, l b d icolor, body size
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Longfellow CreekLongfellow Creek
Study Stream•Highly altered systemEntrenched•Entrenched
•Poor riparian habitat•Highly flashy •Substantial stormwater input pfrom urban land use
PSM Rates Measured by NMFSSample
Size% of
Females
2002 57 86
2003 18 66 72003 18 66.7
2004 9 88.9
Data from McCarthy et al. 2008
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Lund’s Gulch Creek in Meadowdale Park
Reference Stream•Protected lower watershed
M di id i l i h d•Medium residential in upper watershed
•Natural floodplain
•Dense, wide riparian buffer
•Moderately flashy
•Natural runs, riffles and pools
•PSM rate unknown but suspected low
Alterations at mouthl d il d l•Tunnels under railroad trestle
•Boardwalk for public access
•Boardwalk grate allows passage of smaller salmon
D i ( d fi h) •During storm events, water (and fish) flows over top of boardwalk
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Flow Over Coho Spawning Season 2009Flow Over Coho Spawning Season 2009
80Longfellow Flow
40
50
60
70
FS
Storm Attempt 1
0
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CF
7080
Lund’s Gulch Flow
10/14/09 10/19/09 10/24/09 10/29/09 11/3/09 11/8/09 11/13/09 11/18/09 11/23/09
2030405060
CFS
01020
10/14/09 10/19/09 10/24/09 10/29/09 11/3/09 11/8/09 11/13/09 11/18/09 11/23/09
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November Storm - TOCNovember Storm TOC
Longfellow Baseline TOC = 3.12 mg/LLund’s Gulch Baseline TOC = 4.06 mg/L
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November Storm - CalciumNovember Storm - Calcium
Longfellow Baseline Calcium= 22.6 mg/LLund’s Gulch Baseline Calcium = 18.6 mg/L
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Water Chemistry ResultsWater Chemistry Results
•Conventionals, metals and organics concentrations did organics concentrations did not exceed WQS.•All metals increased with flow
Longfellow Baseline Lead = 0.154 ug/LLund’s Gulch Baseline Lead = <0.025 ug/L
Longfellow Baseline Copper = 0.827 ug/LLund’s Gulch Baseline Copper = 0.659 ug/L
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Gill Tissue ResultsGill Tissue Results• Biotic Ligand Model (BLM)
underpredicted gill tissue copper levels and did not predict copper levels and did not predict differences between sites; copper, zinc levels in water not toxic at either site.
• No BLM for lead• No BLM for lead.• 73% PSM in LF female coho.
Coho Summary Longfellow LF Gills Lund’s
GulchLG
Gills
Prespawn 40 7 1 1p
Postspawn 8 1 3 3
Unknown 40 2 3 2
Predated 11 1 3 111 10 7Total Dead 99 11 10 7
Total Coho >113 NA >20 NA
NA – not applicable
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Cl f Gill C t tiClues from Gill Concentrations• Only significant difference in
gill tissue metals concentrations between two sites, is for lead.
• Lead - a neurotoxin shown to cause agitation followed by weak swimming, coughing, reduced equilibrium, jumping before death in fish.
• Lead (Cd, Co, Zn) also competes with calcium for binding sites on gill.
Calcium Lead binding
More important in freshwater than saltwater.
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Clues from Gill and PSM DataClues from Gill and PSM Data0.4
Lead in Gill Tissue
LongfellowL d
0.3
0.35LundsPSM
PSM POST
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ead
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kg w
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PSM
PSMPSM
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PSM
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10/4/09 10/14/09 10/24/09 11/3/09 11/13/09 11/23/09 12/3/09 12/13/09
PSMPOST
?? ??PSM
POST?? ??
PSM = prespawn mortalityPOST = postspawn mortality?? = unknown status
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Other Cluesi d di i i h fi h i l• Literature and discussions with fish toxicology
experts (Dr. Wood and Dr. Pyle) confirm that no single piece of data alone explains PSM butsingle piece of data alone explains PSM but…
• …a combination of special conditions likely causing mortality - most suspiciously lead causing mortality most suspiciously lead, hardness, TOC quality AND
• Physiological status of transitionary cohoy g y
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Limited Knowledge About Changes in Limited Knowledge About Changes in Salmon Migrating to Freshwater
K• Known▫ Hormones play critical role in
transition (cortisol, prolactin, growth hormone).
• Unknown▫ How long process takes to fully
transition physiologically▫ All biochemical steps involvedg )
▫ Chloride cells increase in number during transition.
▫ Chloride cells are site of active uptake of
▫ All biochemical steps involved▫ How different species and
individuals adapt under different environmental conditions
active uptake of osmoregulatory ions (Sodium, calcium, potassium, chloride).
▫ Freshwater existence uses up more energy (ATP) because of active pumping.
▫ Migration is stressful!! ▫ Migration is stressful!!
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I C l iIn ConclusionWorking hypothesis congruent with data:g yp g
Coho entering urban streams are more susceptible li f l to acute mortality from osmoregulatory system
disruption caused by spikes in lead levels during storm events due to… storm events due to…
1) their propensity to enter streams during high flow events,
2) relatively substantial drops in calcium levels, 3) low quality DOC in urbanized streams, and4) the transitionary status of their calcium pumps4) the transitionary status of their calcium pumps
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Next Stepsp• Research needed ▫ Run calcium flux assay
• Collect water at same sites to test colorimetric Run calcium flux assay
with adult transitionarycoho
ff f l d
sites to test colorimetric differences in DOC qualityDOC lit hi h i ▫ Test effects of lead
exposure on calcium flux
• DOC quality higher in systems with more terrestrial input.
• Higher DOC quality buffers metals toxicity moremore.
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Project Assistance
• Nat Scholtz and lab staff (NMFS)• Steve Damm (WDFW)• Sarah McCarthy• Water Sampling – Christopher Barnes, David
Robinson Stephanie HessRobinson, Stephanie Hess• Streamwalkers- Christopher Barnes, Cameron
Chapman, Beth Cullen, Kym Foley, Kollin Higgins, R H hf ld C i li H lid Ch i K Ji Ro Hohfeld, Caitlin Holiday, Chris Knutson, Jim Lissa, Doug Marconi, David Robinson, Ruth Schaefer, Jo Wilhelm ,
• Doug Dailer (Meadowdale Park Ranger)
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Project Teamj• Dean Wilson• Richard Jack• Deb LesterDeb Lester• Sally Abella• Technical Advice▫ Hans Berge▫ Hans Berge