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...

Region Wide Fish Passage Program

Hi everyone  Check out this video released by the Ministry for the Environment (NZ) showing the great work Kūmānu Environmental and Tasman District Council have been doing to restore fish passage in the Tasman Region. This 5 year project will allow 7,000+ desktop...

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Pacific Lamprey Video

Hi everyone,  One of our Fish Passage Action Team members, Kelly, captured this unusual footage whilst recently travelling in the USA to attend the International Fish Passage conference.  Pacific Lamprey are often overlooked when it comes to fish passage....

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Fish Passage from North to South NZ

Hi everyone It's always great to see a growing number of people getting stuck into fish passage throughout New Zealand. Aided by the newly released Fish Passage Remediation Training Aid 2022, teams of practitioners are better equipped than ever before to restore...

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New and improved protocol for monitoring fish passage

Hi all, Tasman District Council in NZ has recently undertaken an unprecedented 23 day fish passage trial assessing fish movement through a twin barrel culvert. The trial involved capturing and counting fish daily as they naturally migrated upstream through the culvert...

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Sustainability Award

Hi everyone, A big congratulations to our friend Mike Thomas for being awarded the Downer Sustainability Award. The team at ATS Environmental were privileged to help Mike modify the RAMMs asset management app to include data that allows Downer and Tasman District...

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World Fish Migration Day

Fish Passage Remediation Training Aid launch. Hi everyone,  We have been working away and are excited to announce the launch of the latest Fish Passage Training Aid and Fish Passage Action Team website!  This has been launched in conjunction with World Fish Migration...

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