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Pacific Northwest Lab: New, Tiny Battery Powers Big Insight Into Fish Passage for Hydropower
June 24, 2021
WASHINGTON, June 24 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory issued the following web feature:

By Kelsey Adkisson

With the worldwide decline of lamprey and eel populations, tracking their movement and survival is a first step toward conservation. However, some tracking sensors--or tags--are too large for smaller fish.

Scientists recently developed a new, tiny battery and tag to track younger, smaller species, such as sal . . .

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