Fish and lamprey passage in a combined Denil and vertical slot fishway

• Published in: Fisheries Management and Ecology
• Main Authors: LAINE, KAMULA, HOOLI
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1998
• Subjects: Kemijoki; Northern Finland; Salmo salar
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2400.1998.00077.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1046%2Fj.1365-2400.1998.00077.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1046/j.1365-2400.1998.00077.x

A fishway (fish pass), consisting of vertical slot and Denil sections, was constructed at the lowest dam on the River Kemijoki, northern Finland, in 1993. The river was one of the best salmon rivers in Europe until 1949, when the dam and the hydropower plant were completed close to the river mouth....