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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 region-wide program well underway, remediating a range of structures with effective, robust, and low-cost fixes.

The city council has posted this excellent short video highlighting some of the work completed so far.

Conservation Week – Helping our native fish swim against the current

It’s #ConservationWeek and here’s today’s conservation video. This video shows how concrete pipes and culverts make it hard for native fish to swim up and down our streams so we have to put in deflectors to slow the current down and make places for them to rest. That helps them swim upstream to spawn and keep their populations healthy. Comment on this video and you will go into the draw to win a family pass to The Brook Sanctuary.

Posted by Nelson City Council on Thursday, 20 August 2020

 The NCC fish passage program is very simple  – see below:

1. Locate structures in the waterway
2. Survey of structures in waterways and give a “Current Status”
3. Identify barriers to fish
4. Consider desired and undesired fish species
5. Propose mitigation and costs
6. Propose some form of prioritisation for remedial works
7. Undertake remedial works
8. Reporting and data management
9. Ongoing monitoring

Another YouTube version of the video below.