The Tennessee Valley Authority recently spearheaded a project at the Watts Bar Reservoir involving the purchase and installation of 1100 MossBack fish habitats.
“When the (TVA) reservoirs were created, there was a lot of (timber) cover and habitat,” Shannon O’Quinn, Tennessee Valley Authority senior water resources specialist, said. “Over time, that dies out and decays.”
Luckily, engineers are on the case, building long-lasting artificial fish habitats that don’t degrade underwater.
TVA purchased 1,100 MossBack artificial fish habitat structures and, on a sultry spring day, helped staff from the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency and volunteers assemble them.
“This partnership with TWRA will provide more permanent habitat for the fisheries in Watts Bar,” O’Quinn said.
Mike Jolley, Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency reservoir fisheries manager, agreed.
“We can put these in now and they should be there for well past our lifetimes,”
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