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KEEPFISH · Knowledge Exchange for Efficient Passage of Fishes in the Southern Hemisphere

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период
2016-01-01 → 2019-12-31
Финансиране от ЕС
126 000 €
Участници
9
Схема
MSCA-RISE

Линиите свързват координатора с партньорите.

Накратко на български

Нуждите на местните риби в Южното полукълбо се анализират, за да се подобрят конструкциите, през които те преминават през язовирите. Това помага за опазване на биоразнообразието и риболова, тъй като много съществуващи превъздушни пътеки за риби не работят за местните видове.

Този кратък обзор е генериран от изкуствен интелект

Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.

Резултати накратко

Knowledge Exchange for Efficient Passage of Fishes in the Southern Hemisphere

Barriers such as dams and weirs have been built in rivers for centuries. It has long been known that such barriers block the movement of fish and result in local extinctions and socioeconomic impacts due to the collapse of inland fisheries. This is a particularly important theme since the world has recently entered what has been called the “second great dam building age”, with 1000s of large dam projects and countless small barriers under construction or in the planning process. The main objective of this dam building is to support the reduction of carbon emissions. The Southern Hemisphere is seeing an especially strong boom in dam building. We need to ensure that the curbing of carbon emissions in this way does not come with unacceptable costs to the environment and society. Mitigation measures that aim to reduce the impact of hydropower dams on fish movement have generally focused on structures especially designed for fish to swim through, whilst minimising the loss of water that could otherwise be used to produce energy. We call such structures ‘fishways’. However, beyond a few species in Europe and North America, we do not have enough knowledge about what conditions we need to create to help the fish get over the barrier. This could mean that expensive fishways are being constructed that do not work for native species, leading to declines in biodiversity and fisheries. With this in mind, the KEEPFISH project aims to achieve the following: 1. Gather the best available evidence on the needs of native species in the Southern Hemisphere to improve fishway design 2. Identify priorities for future research to improve fishway design and monitoring 3. Train early career researchers to enable them to better address the priorities 4. Establish a team of stakeholders committed to improving fishways 5. Communicate the results to other scientists, raise public awareness and influence the people responsible for making decisions about fishways.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

The decline of freshwater fish biodiversity is proceeding at an alarming and persistent rate. Given that most fish must undertake some form of migration in order to complete their life-cycle, of particular concern is the proliferation of hydropower schemes that block migration routes, as well as a variety of other barriers such as weirs and culverts. Several locations in the southern hemisphere are among the major global hotspots of hydropower development. They are also home to some of the least studied fish communities in the world. Mitigation measures for fish passage have traditionally relied on designs developed for strong swimming fishes of the northern hemisphere. These designs are ineffective for generally smaller, relatively weak swimming fish, such as those found in temperate regions of the southern hemisphere, but there is very little understanding of the mechanisms involved. This innovative project represents the first systematic attempt to bring together world-leading practitioners from Europe with biologists, engineers and stakeholders from the southern hemisphere in an effort to exchange knowledge and construct a shared vision for fish passage science and policy. This will be achieved through systematic review, expert consultation, ecological modelling, training programmes, networking and stakeholder engagement using a novel combination of approaches. The outcomes will include: high quality journal publications; a summer school; a set of funding bids based on a co-constructed research strategy; and a model predicting fish passage for species of the southern hemisphere. The project’s key performance indicators will include: number of publications on fish passage in the southern hemisphere; uptake of robust methods in fish passage research; corresponding citations; metrics indicating public awareness (online activity, readership of popular publications, number of people reached in public engagement events); and policy citations.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

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Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз