RESTORE attended an international symposium in Vienna in September. The symposium gathered 300 participants to look at research and new solutions for our rivers. If you look at the proceedings you can see the discussions on large hydro power schemes around the world, like Mekong River. The sturgeon can not migrate along the Danube and other fish struggle to move around our rivers. At the event the work and cooperation in Austria between river managers and power companies is helping to solve some of these issues. Discussion consisted of presentations about the benefits of river restoration, upstream and downstream fish migration, environmental flows, modeling and aquatic ecology. New fish pass cases, combined with reproduction habitats, were presented in some presentations. Jukka Jormola from RESTORE gave a presentation on natural fish bypass channels and work that is being undertaken in Finland. Technical tours were organized to fish passes and a new side channel under construction on the Danube.
Proceedings: http://www.ise2012.boku.ac.at/