Monitoring the biodiversity and population ecology of fish in the Belgian Meuse River by the use of fishpasses. A 12-year study at the Visé-Lixhe dam Poster 6.2.20. pp 203-204
peer reviewed A 'Meuse Salmon 2000 ' project aiming at restoring an Atlantic salmon run in the Meuse River basin started in 1987 as a contribution of Wallonia to the European Year of Environment. In the course of this currently international programme, most dams (3-8 m in height) obstructi...
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ftorbi:oai:orbi.ulg.ac.be:2268/79209 2024-04-21T07:57:09+00:00 Monitoring the biodiversity and population ecology of fish in the Belgian Meuse River by the use of fishpasses. A 12-year study at the Visé-Lixhe dam Poster 6.2.20. pp 203-204 Philippart, Jean-Claude Rimbaud, Gilles Ovidio, Michaël Gillet, Alain 2001-12 https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/79209 en eng Belgian Biodiversity Platform https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/79209 info:hdl:2268/79209 Proceedings of the 5th meeting of the European Platform for Biodiversity Research Strategy (2001-12); 5th meeting of the European Platform for Biodiversity Research Strategy. Scientific tools for biodiversity conservation : monitoring, modelling and experiments., Bruxelles, Belgium [BE], 2-4 Décembre 2001 River Meuse Fish pass Fish Salmon 2000 project upstream migration Life sciences Environmental sciences & ecology Sciences du vivant Sciences de l’environnement & écologie conference paper http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_5794 info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject peer reviewed 2001 ftorbi 2024-03-27T14:50:08Z peer reviewed A 'Meuse Salmon 2000 ' project aiming at restoring an Atlantic salmon run in the Meuse River basin started in 1987 as a contribution of Wallonia to the European Year of Environment. In the course of this currently international programme, most dams (3-8 m in height) obstructing the canalised River Meuse in Belgium and The Netherlands have been fitted with modern fishways in order to defragmentate habitat and restore the free circulation of amphibiotic (Atlantic salmon, Sea trout, European eel) and holobiotic migratory fish species. Since 1990, a detailed investigation is being carried on at the Visé-Lixhe dam to scientifically register the fish ascending a small fishpass built in 1980 (at the same time as the barrage) and a big one constructed in 1998 to allow the upstream migration of large salmonids. Up till now, about 303,000 fish (biomass 12,000 kg) have been trapped in these fishways, belonging to 33 species (26 autochtonous + 7 allochtonous). Among the species recorded, we found several rare and/or endangered species such as Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar; reintroduction in progress), sea trout (Salmo trutta), river bleak (Alburnoïdes bipunctatus), nase (Chondrostoma nasus), barbel (Barbus barbus), wild carp (Cyprinus carpio), European catfish (Silurus glanis) and new aliens such as asp (Aspius aspius). During this study numerous data have been collected on the ecology (age and growth, reproduction, and recruitment, population dynamics) and behavioural ecology (migration periodicity in relation to water temperature and discharge) of the migratory populations of most representative species. Futhermore, biotelemetry techniques have been used to describe and analyse the behavior of migratory individuals confronted with a physical obstacle or a fishway entrance or caught in a fishway and then released above to allow them to moves further upstream. Conference Object Atlantic salmon European eel Salmo salar University of Liège: ORBi (Open Repository and Bibliography) |
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peer reviewed A 'Meuse Salmon 2000 ' project aiming at restoring an Atlantic salmon run in the Meuse River basin started in 1987 as a contribution of Wallonia to the European Year of Environment. In the course of this currently international programme, most dams (3-8 m in height) obstructing the canalised River Meuse in Belgium and The Netherlands have been fitted with modern fishways in order to defragmentate habitat and restore the free circulation of amphibiotic (Atlantic salmon, Sea trout, European eel) and holobiotic migratory fish species. Since 1990, a detailed investigation is being carried on at the Visé-Lixhe dam to scientifically register the fish ascending a small fishpass built in 1980 (at the same time as the barrage) and a big one constructed in 1998 to allow the upstream migration of large salmonids. Up till now, about 303,000 fish (biomass 12,000 kg) have been trapped in these fishways, belonging to 33 species (26 autochtonous + 7 allochtonous). Among the species recorded, we found several rare and/or endangered species such as Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar; reintroduction in progress), sea trout (Salmo trutta), river bleak (Alburnoïdes bipunctatus), nase (Chondrostoma nasus), barbel (Barbus barbus), wild carp (Cyprinus carpio), European catfish (Silurus glanis) and new aliens such as asp (Aspius aspius). During this study numerous data have been collected on the ecology (age and growth, reproduction, and recruitment, population dynamics) and behavioural ecology (migration periodicity in relation to water temperature and discharge) of the migratory populations of most representative species. Futhermore, biotelemetry techniques have been used to describe and analyse the behavior of migratory individuals confronted with a physical obstacle or a fishway entrance or caught in a fishway and then released above to allow them to moves further upstream. |
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Monitoring the biodiversity and population ecology of fish in the Belgian Meuse River by the use of fishpasses. A 12-year study at the Visé-Lixhe dam Poster 6.2.20. pp 203-204 |
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Monitoring the biodiversity and population ecology of fish in the Belgian Meuse River by the use of fishpasses. A 12-year study at the Visé-Lixhe dam Poster 6.2.20. pp 203-204 |
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Monitoring the biodiversity and population ecology of fish in the Belgian Meuse River by the use of fishpasses. A 12-year study at the Visé-Lixhe dam Poster 6.2.20. pp 203-204 |
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Monitoring the biodiversity and population ecology of fish in the Belgian Meuse River by the use of fishpasses. A 12-year study at the Visé-Lixhe dam Poster 6.2.20. pp 203-204 |
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Monitoring the biodiversity and population ecology of fish in the Belgian Meuse River by the use of fishpasses. A 12-year study at the Visé-Lixhe dam Poster 6.2.20. pp 203-204 |
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monitoring the biodiversity and population ecology of fish in the belgian meuse river by the use of fishpasses. a 12-year study at the visé-lixhe dam poster 6.2.20. pp 203-204 |
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Proceedings of the 5th meeting of the European Platform for Biodiversity Research Strategy (2001-12); 5th meeting of the European Platform for Biodiversity Research Strategy. Scientific tools for biodiversity conservation : monitoring, modelling and experiments., Bruxelles, Belgium [BE], 2-4 Décembre 2001 |
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