Hydropower and Fish Symposium
International Conference on River Connectivity (Fish Passage 2018)
Days
Monday, 10th December
Tuesday, 11th December
Wednesday, 12th December
Thursday, 13th December
Friday, 14th December
Tracks
Hydropower and Fish Symposium
Fish passage in tropical systems
Fish Passage in the Mekong Basin
Non-salmonid Fish Passage
Best practice diversion screening
Fish passage engineering advancements
Fish Passage and Connectivity monitoring techniques
Dam removal
Road Crossing Remediation
Reconnecting with floodplains and wetlands
Estuarine connectivity and passage
Policy – the Achilles-heel of river connectivity
Connectivity and river operations
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Speakers
Hydropower & Fish Symposium I
11:20AM - 12:40PM
Tuesday, 11th December
Auditorium
Chair: Lee Baumgartner
Hydropower symposium opening presentation.
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Hans-Petter Fjeldstad
The Xayaburi fishpass system – design concept and development
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Michael Raeder
Modification of Navigation Locks for upstream fish migration
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Thanasak Poomchaivej
Assessing the effectiveness of first fish passage facility to enhance sustainability of inland fishery resources in Indonesian River: a case study in Komering River, South Sumatera, Indonesia
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Arif Mr Wibowo
Hydropower & Fish Symposium II
1:30PM - 3:10PM
Tuesday, 11th December
Auditorium
Chair: Zhiqun (Daniel) Deng
Teasing out the impacts of hydropower on fisheries in the Lower Mekong Basin
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Ian Cowx
Understanding mortality mechanisms in hydro power plants: implications for Mekong hydropower development
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Garry Thorncraft
Assessing fisheries and environmental impacts and proposing policy recommendations for sustainable development of Mekong River Basin
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Nam So
Megadams and goliath catfish management in Amazonian scale: “running against the wind”
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Lisiane Hahn
Assessing the swimming ability and performance of
Schizothorax oconnori
to cross velocity barriers in fishway
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Xiaotao Shi
Hydropower & Fish Symposium III
3:40PM - 5:20PM
Tuesday, 11th December
Auditorium
Chair: Zhiqun (Daniel) Deng
The effect of weir crest width and discharge on passage performance of a potamodromous cyprinid
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José M. Santos
Fish Passage Challenges and Opportunities in Indonesia
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Arif Wibowo
Stress indicators in
Prochilodus lineatus
breeders during migration through a fish ladder
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Sergio Makrakis
Effectiveness of a fish ladder for two Neotropical migratory species in the Paraná River
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Sergio Makrakis
Upstream passage of adult sea trout (
Salmo trutta
) at a low-head weir with an Archimedean screw hydropower turbine and co-located fish pass
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Jamie R Dodd
Hydropower & Fish Symposium IV
11:00AM - 12:40PM
Wednesday, 12th December
Auditorium
Chair: Luiz Silva
The Importance of a Constructed Near-Nature-Like DanubeFish Way as a Lifecycle Habitat for Spawning, Fish Larvae, Juveniles and Adults – A Long Term View with Remarks on Management
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Paul Meulenbroek
Survival of fish passing downstream at a small hydropower facility
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Stephen Amaral
Surface bypass as a means to protect downstream-migrating fish – lack of standardized evaluation criteria complicates evaluation of efficacy
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Elena-Maria Klopries
Low-sloping racks and the importance of bar spacing for fish passage
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Olle Calles
Comparison of sonar-, camera- and net-based methods in detecting riverine fish movement patterns
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Leonhard Egg
Hydropower & Fish Symposium V
1:30PM - 3:10PM
Wednesday, 12th December
Auditorium
Chair: Brett Pflugrath
Predicting barotrauma susceptibility for downstream passage at river infrastructure
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Brett Pflugrath
Injury and Mortality of Two Mekong River Species to Turbulent Shear Forces
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Zhiqun (Daniel) Deng
Sensing what fish feel about passage through three different low-head hydropower turbines
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Craig A Boys
Determining barotrauma in the Pictus catfish, Pimelodus pictus, experimentally exposed to simulated hydropower turbine passage
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Luiz Silva
Warning, it’s a catfish! Novel approaches are needed to study the effects of rapid decompression on benthonic species
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Luiz Silva
Hydropower & Fish Symposium VI
3:40PM - 5:20PM
Wednesday, 12th December
Auditorium
Chair: Brett Pflugrath
Flow characteristics in tailrace: understanding how hydrodynamics may attract fish to hydropower plant in South America
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Hersília Santos
Reservoir provides cool-water refuge for adult Chinook salmon in a trap-and-haul reintroduction program
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Matthew L Keefer
Optimizing hydropower development and ecosystem services in the Kafue River, Zambia
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Ian G Cowx
WITHDRAWN: Hydropower effects on aquatic species: lessons from individual-based modeling
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Steven F Railsback
Long-term study of reservoir cascade in Southeastern Brazil reveals spatio-temporal gradient in fish assemblages
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Raquel C Loures
Hydropower & Fish Symposium VII
11:00AM - 12:40PM
Thursday, 13th December
Auditorium
Chair: Ian Cowx
Re-thinking the hydropower design process: reversing global trends in fisheries decline requires new approaches and techniques
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Martin Mallen-Cooper
Avoiding fish passage impacts through basin-wide infrastructure project planning
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Alison Bowden
A perspective on the need for assessing the fish transfer risk associated with pumped hydropower schemes
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Elizabeth Pope
River Connectivity: Addressing the exclusion, collection or guidance of fish, debris, algae, and water temperature at dams and power plants in order to provide enhanced river connectivity.
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Andy Peters
Fish friendliness of archimedes screw turbines: quantified by forced fish passage (Albert channel, Belgium)
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Raf Baeyens
Hydropower & Fish Symposium VIII
1:30PM - 3:10PM
Thursday, 13th December
Auditorium
Chair: Juergen Geist
Fish injury and mortality in pumping stations – a comparison of conventional and fish-friendly pumps
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Beate Bierschenk
Evaluation of external and internal fish injury caused by hydropower plants using field-based methods and x-ray technology
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Melanie Mueller
Understanding migration behaviour to guide the development of downstream passage options for shortfinned eels
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David N Ikedife
Improving fish ladder efficiency by accurately predicting and observing fish movements: results, challenges and opportunities of the case near the hydropower plant of Altusried (Germany)
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Raf Baeyens
Fish ladders at small hydropower plants and potential contribution to downstream passage of eggs and larvae
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Eduardo Brambilla
Hydropower & Fish Passage
3:40PM - 5:00PM
Thursday, 13th December
Auditorium
Chair: Ian Cowx
How different cyprinids perform in an experimental multi slot fishway? Testing its effectiveness in distinct seasons
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José Maria Santos
Action plan for the optimization of the fish lift built at the Touvedo hydropower plan, NW Portugal
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José Maria Santos
Advances in Biological Performance Assessment of Turbines within the Industry Context
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Pedro Romero-Gomez
Dorrigo Plateau Run-of-River proposed hydroelectric development
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Peter Lynch