For centuries, humankind has constructed dams on rivers to control flooding, provide for
irrigation and utilize potential energy for power, but generally dams had no or little provision …

Global stocks of freshwater fish have been on the decline for decades, driven in part by the
obstruction of their migration routes by anthropogenic barriers. To mitigate such impacts …

Eco-hydraulic models are wide extended tools to assess physical habitat suitability on
aquatic environments. Currently, the application of these tools is limited to short river …

Adequately designed vertical slot fishways (VSF) mitigate the impact of anthropogenic
obstructions on fish migrations. Until now, most studies on VSF were conducted focusing on …

Vertical slot fishways are widely used and are generally very effective in ensuring fish
passage. The appropriate design of a vertical slot fishway depends on an interplay between …

Abstract Design of effective fishways is becoming increasingly important. This paper focuses
on the effect of the angle of deflection (α) between small and large baffles in a vertical slot …

An increasing presence of instream structures such as weirs, dams, culverts and reservoirs
degrades habitats, fragments rivers and blocks fish movements worldwide. Longitudinal …

Fishways are of great ecological importance and have been the focus of numerous studies.
However, many fishways remain operating at an unsatisfactory level. Furthermore, field …

The reproduction and survival of fish are often negatively affected by the construction of
dams and other hydroelectric projects, which cut off their migratory routes. Building effective …

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is increasingly applied in the study of fishways.
Applications and methodologies, however, vary substantially among scientific studies and …