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Webinar: Improving Fish Passage on the White River: Operations, Monitoring, Modifications, and Maintenance

JOINT COMMITTEE ON FISHERIES ENGINEERING AND SCIENCE 2025 Webinar Series Improving Fish Passage on the White River: Operations, Monitoring, Modifications, and Maintenance Forming part of the Puyallup River Basin near Mount Rainier, the White River has long played a critical role in supporting salmon and steelhead populations in western Washington. Yet since the mid-20th century, the... Read More

Joint Committee on Fisheries Engineering and Science – 2025 Webinar Series: Restoring Fish Passage on the St. Croix River

JOINT COMMITTEE ON FISHERIES ENGINEERING AND SCIENCE 2025 Webinar Series Restoring Fish Passage on the St. Croix River: Engineering and Ecological Perspectives Forming the border of Maine and New Brunswick, the St. Croix River (Skutik) watershed, rich in forest streams and lakes, has the potential to support the largest run of migratory river herring on... Read More

Next Webinar on June 11, 2025: Restoring Fish Passage at China Lake – A Case Study in Dam Removal and Fishway Installation

Restoring Fish Passage at China Lake: A Case Study in Dam Removal and Fishway Installation Over seven years, the China Lake Alewife Restoration Initiative restored access for migratory alewives to China Lake in central Maine. This collaborative project involved the removal of three dams and the construction of three technical fishways along the China Lake... Read More

Join Us for Our Next Webinar on February 23, 2023

The Programmatic Approach to Ecosystem Restoration Presented by Beth Lambert, Director, Massachusetts Division of Ecological Restoration The Massachusetts Division of Ecological Restoration provides a template of how to create, tailor and promote a government-sponsored ecological restoration program. Created in 2009 by bringing together two small, community-based restoration programs housed within different agencies in the Commonwealth,... Read More

December 2022 Webinar Recording Now Available!

The Joint Committee on Fisheries Science and Engineering hosted a free webinar on December 6, 2022 featuring George Pess, Ph.D., Program Manager for the Watershed Program at the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Northwest Fisheries Science Center (NWFSC) speaking about the ecosystem response following the removal of the Elwha River Dams in... Read More

Join us for our Next Webinar: December 6, Noon Pacific Time

Ecosystem Response to the Removal of the Elwha River Dams. One ecosystem restoration technique that can have a large-scale effect is dam removal. This single action allows for the re-connection of ecosystem processes such as upstream and downstream organism movement, the rapid transformation from lentic to lotic conditions in former reservoirs, rapid shifts in community... Read More

May 26 Fish Passage Funding Webinar Recording Now Available

The Joint Committee on Fisheries Science and Engineering hosted a free webinar on May 26 featuring a panel of speakers from various federal agencies, including USFWS, USFS, USDOE, USACE, FHWA, and NOAA. The panel members provided an overview of upcoming federal opportunities for fish passage projects under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Thank you to all... Read More

Webinar Recordings Now Available!

Two recordings of past webinars have been uploaded to our Youtube channel!  Please share with your colleagues and let us know if you have any recommendations or requests for future webinars. 2020 Distinguished Project Award Winner Artur Furydna, TPRIIG/CCB/LIFEDrawaPL December 8, 2020 Flyer World Fish Migration Day: Creating a Movement to Save Migratory Fish –... Read More

Free Webinar: Removing ‘Road Dams’ In Europe?

The US Forest Service, The Nature Conservancy, and The World Fish Migration Foundation invite you to the webinar: Removing “Road Dams” in Europe? taking place on 19th January, 2022 from 15:00-18:00 CET.  This is a free, international webinar which will highlight the need and opportunities to improve road and stream crossings to enhance the biodiversity of rivers... Read More