Fish Passage Program - Midwest Region on the Land Conservation Assistance Network

Fish Passage Program - Midwest Region
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last updated: April 2022

The Fish Passage Program works with local communities on a voluntary basis to restore rivers and conserve our nation’s aquatic resources by removing or bypassing barriers. Our projects benefit both fish and people.

We work with communities to remove obsolete and dangerous dams, permanently eliminating public safety hazards and restoring river ecosystems. The program also works with transportation agencies and others to improve road stream crossings so that the streams can flow naturally beneath them. The resulting infrastructure is more resilient to flooding and benefits communities by saving money in long-term repair and replacement costs. We collaborate with landowners to adapt water diversion systems so that the systems are efficient at retrieving and moving water as well as saving fish.

Since 1999, the FWS National Fish Passage Program has:

Removed or bypassed more than 3,000 barriers to fish passage.
Reopened access to almost 60,000 miles of upstream habitat for fish and other aquatic organisms.
Reopened access to more than 190,000 acres of wetland habitat for fish and other animals.
Worked with 2,000 partners across the country.

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