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Fish passage technologies
Since the establishment of the IFRG in 2006, we have helped deliver successful fish passage outcomes in Myanmar, Lao PDR, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Germany, and Australia.
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Effective fish passage technologies = healthy inland fisheries = food, income and biodiversity
- Fish passage refers to fish having an unimpeded pathway to move between two habitats.
- In situations where the habitat access for fish has been compromised by the installation of a physical structure such as a culvert, fish passage can be restored by managing flow conditions to support fish passage through the structure.
- Fish passage can also be restored by constructing a fish pass facility, such as a fish ladder, to enable fish to swim around the physical barrier.
- There are many different types of fish ladders available to suit a range of contexts (e.g. barriers of different heights, sites subjected to differing changes in water level etc.) and various species with differing swimming abilities.
- Some of the more common types include vertical slot fishways, submerged orifice fishways, and cone fishways.
