News & Updates

From training to action: Gisborne gets started

Council and local iwi join forces to map fish barriers in Gisborne, New Zealand

First coho salmon for 70 years!

Surrey City, BC, Canada is celebrating the return of coho salmon for the first time in 70 years.

Studies Show Innovative Ramps Improve Fish Passage

Hello everyone, Tasman District Council (NZ) continues to be a world leader in region-wide fish passage remediation programmes. Tasman has remediated thousands of fish barriers using a range of cost-effective methods. Two of the most commonly used are flexible rubber...

Fish Pass Opens Up Duck Creek In Auckland

For the landowners along Duck Creek, restoring the stream to its former glory has been a labour of love. First, the mature pine trees along the banks were removed, then native seedlings planted and other weed species managed. The icing on the cake was to remediate a...

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Video Of Drone Survey Showing Fish Passage Remediation

Nelson City Council has recently explored a new method of inspecting culverts with the use of a drone. Below is footage highlighting the improvement to fish passage after fish baffles were fitted, with increased depth, lower velocity and rest pools throughout. Based...

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Fantastic Friday Photo

I couldn't resist sending out this excellent photo taken by member Jason Gunn Burton. Jason regularly takes amazing videos and photos that he share on the Eel Town Facebook page.

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Magical Climbing Fish

Hi all Below is a short video that Tim has put together showing juvenile whitebait (galaxiid) climbing up into a perched culvert. We are often able to imitate the conditions that allow fish to do this by fitting rubber ramps and/or mussel-rope, however little is known...

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Fish Passage

Chuck Lobdell and the team at Johnson Creek Watershed OR have recently installed some flexible baffles in the culvert under Highway 26.The aim is to improve fish passage in all flow particularly for spawning salmon.The baffles are offset to provide a low-flow swim...

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