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Fish species are affected by the development and operation of dams. Dams without adequate fish passage systems block migrating up stream adults from reaching critical habitat. For downstream juveniles, a substantial proportion can be killed while migrating through dams, both directly through collisions with structures and abrupt pressure changes during passage through turbines and spillways, and indirectly,through non-fatal injury and disorientation. Dams also cause increased travel times for juveniles to migrate downstream due to disruption of natural flowing rivers. This increase travel time and/or migration delay,presents an array of potential survival hazards including increased exposure to predation and disease, depleting energy reserves, and potentially causing metabolic problems associated with smoltification.