Welcome to Fish Market 2016International workshop on downstream fish passage best practices and innovations at hydropower stations - 6th and 7th of October 2016
The Fish Market is a conference for anyone involved in the work on fish migration, fish passage and restoration. It has been hosted as a workshop and the main theme was "best practices and innovations for the protection of downstream migration". During this Fish Market were given lectures, chances to increase your network, meet hydropower companies, governmental agencies and consultants. Several exhibitors participated such as dealers of relevant products and services. On both days, guided excursions were organized to the fish migration facilities of the ECI power plant in Roermond.
This Fish Market in the Netherlands has been organized by the International Commission for the Projection of the Rhine (ICPR), the regional water authority Roer and Overmaas and the World Fish Migration Foundation (WFMF).
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ThemesThe following six themes are the main subjects for the fish market:
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Screening, bypasses & fish guidance techniques
Screening - Photo by Olle Calles
Optimizing knowledge dissemination
River Rhine tributary dam
Decreasing fish mortality in turbines
Turbines
Telemetry monitoring techniques
PIT-tag antenna in vertical slot fishway
Policy and legislation for hydropower plants
Hydropower station Hengsteysee, River Ruhr
Criteria to define fish passage efficiency
Screening in front of hydropower station
Photo credits: Wilco de Bruijne
Rob GubbelsSenior Ecologist, Waterschap Roer en Overmaas
Olle CallesAssociate Professor, PhD, River Ecology and Management, Karlstad University
Armin PeterPh.D., Peter FishConsulting
Pierre SagnesManager of the Ecohydraulic Pole, Onema-IMFT
Jakob van BerkelProfessor (Lector) at HZ-University of Applied Sciences, Vlissingen, The Netherlands
Eric De-OliveiraIngineer-Researcher, EDF
Tim VrieseFish migration specialist at ATKB
Marq RedekerDipl.-Ing. Dipl.-Wirt.-Ing., Business Development Manager | CDM Smith
Eva ThorstadPh.D. Research scientist, Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, NINA
Pia AndererDipl.-Phys., Ingenieurbüro Floecksmühle GmbH
Stephan NaumannFederal Environment Agency
Jon HateleyFederal Environment Agency
