Fish Passage Conference 2018, Australia

Fish Passage 2018 will be of interest to researchers, educators, practitioners, funders, and regulators who have an interest in advancements in technical fishways, nature-like fishways, stream restoration and stabilization, dam removal, environmental flows and fish responses, and the myriad of funding, climate change, and other socio-economic related issues surrounding connectivity projects.

Fishways have been an essential component of hydropower projects worldwide. The First International Symposium on Hydropower and Fish Management has been incorporated into Fish Passage 2018 as a venue to provide opportunities for researchers, managers, and the hydropower industry to discuss and collaborate on key topics. A Special Issue of Marine & Freshwater Research will be available for submissions of manuscripts related to the themes in the Hydropower and Fish Management symposium.

Fish Passage 2018 is a three-day conference with concurrent sessions in engineering, biology, management and monitoring techniques.  Key conference themes will include:

• 40,000 years of Australian fish passage
• Hydropower and Fish Management Symposium
• Fish passage challenges in developing countries
• Fish passage for non-salmonids
• Going with the flow – triggering fish passage with managed flow
• Life history movement patterns and fishway design
• Do we really need more fish passage?
• The benefits of prohibiting fish passage
• Cost-effective fish passage innovations
• Policy: the Achilles-heel of fish passage
• Defining what a “successful” fishway is
• How to design a successful fish passage project
• Updating fish passage monitoring
• Reconnecting with floodplains & wetlands
• Individuals to populations – quantifying connectivity
• Downstream fish passage from top to bottom
• Estuarine barrier passage
• Cold Water Pollution mitigation – cold hard facts
• Water extraction versus fish passage
• Dam removal – weir to go now?
• Corporate philanthropy in fish passage