News & Updates
Fish In Culvert
Firstly it is great that we now have 500+ members of the Fish Passage email forum. In this short video Tim has captured how fish really struggle to swim up through culverts with smooth laminar flow. The adult Inanga (one of the galaxiid whitebait family) attempts to...
Bethell’s Beach
Here is Jordie going the extra mile to restore fish passage. The wonderful volunteers at Matuku Link and the Whitebait Connection Auckland team put their heads together and decided to fix a fish passage barrier on one of the Matuku Link walking tracks.The culprit... a...
Go The West Coast!
Happy to share that the West Coast (South Island NZ) has embarked on a fish passage remediation program beginning with road culverts. Tim Olley and Richard Nichol spent a couple of days near Reefton improving fish passage through culverts on the access road to...
Mussel-Rope Heads-Up
Many of you will be familiar with the use of mussel-rope to help improve fish passage over or through structures including culverts. The rope helps to reduce the water velocity adjacent to the rope and also gives a tactile surface for small fish to wriggle through or...
Johnson Creek – Oregon
Just sharing this article showing great fish passage work done in the Johnson Creek watershed near Portland Oregon, USA.http://www.jcwc.org/north-fork-open-migration-one-step-closer/ Click here to read the article
Eels
This short video shows elvers climbing across both smooth and rough surfaces. The urge to overcome obstacles is powerful and you can see individuals climbing over each other. The more we watch these creatures, the better we understand their capabilities and...