You all know I’m really into river restoration, so I thought you might enjoy seeing these shots of a newly-constructed fish ladder on the Saybach River in Rhineland-Pfalz, Germany. The Saybach is tributary to the Rhine River and before the rock weirs were put in place, there was a 7-foot waterfall that blocked the upstream migration of salmon and brown trout. Sweet restoration work and some pretty dam cool looking countryside too, eh?
Our friend and European correspondent Franklin Moquette, who’s a biologist in the Netherlands sent in these photos…
A view of the same structure from the downstream side
This man-made fish passage was made out of rocks, stones and some cement and it looks very natural,” he says. “It is intended for Atlantic salmon and sea trout (sea-run brown trout). The sea trout had already found this new passage as 4 of them (up to 30 inches) were caught upstream by electrofishing equipment that same day!”
Biologists electrofishing
A nice sea-run brownie gets measured and released
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Very Cool! I’d be happy to have some of that stamp money we all pay go towards stuff like this here in the US…
How cool would it be to have something like this on the American!? I know I’m a dreamer!