Fish Passage Guidelines

Hi everyoneThe Fish Passage Action Team have been working on a simple one-page guide to help with the remediation of common structures causing a barrier to fish.The guide includes a link to an interactive decision tool and some helpful before & after...

Mini-Hydro Intake Weir

Hi everyone Below is a photo showing modifications to a back-country mini-hydro intake weir. The original fish pass and minimum residual flow devices were not functioning. The new design successfully allows expected species, all of which are climbers – longfin...

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...

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...

Nelson City Fish Passage Restoration Program

Here in NZ it was Conservation Week last week. Barriers to Fish Passage, is certainly making the headlines, particularly with the announcement of the National Policy Statement Freshwater Management (NPS-FM 2020). Nelson City, NZ has been ahead of the game, with a...

Field Day

I had a great day out in the field with a bunch of folk keen to do some learning with gumboots on. Kelsey Tills of Rayonier kindly organised the day with representatives from Forestry (Rayonier and PF Olsen), local government (Waikato Regional Council), contactors and...