Session C5: Behaviour of Seaward Migrating Eel at Water Intakes and Low Head Hydropower

• Main Authors: Piper, Adam, Kemp, Dr. Paul, Wright, Dr. Ros
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst 2015
• Subjects: Aquaculture and Fisheries; Hydraulic Engineering; Low Head; Anguilla anguilla
• Online Access: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/fishpassage_conference/2015/June23/66

The severe decline of the critically endangered European eel (Anguilla anguilla) has in part been attributed to delayed or blocked seaward migration of escaping adults (silver eels) at river infrastructure. Eels can suffer high rates of injury and mortality at pumps and hydropower turbines and are s...