A step forward in fishway engineering: Validation and implementation of advanced algorithms for effective stepped fishway design, modeling, and retrofitting.

ABSTRACT: Stepped fishways are the main alternative to allow fish migration in river obstacles. Their design is a multidisciplinary process, where civil engineering meets biology. This can bias the fishway design towards one discipline, which may cause low efficiencies or inadequate solutions. Likewise, it is often challenging to incorporate new discoveries into well-established design principles. To solve these problems, we have developed a novel tool named "Escalas". Escalas is a multipurpose platform for the assisted design, 1D simulation, assessment, and correction of stepped fishways. Escalas architecture allows fishway assessment during different hydraulic scenarios in the river (i.e., different water levels and discharges in the river), automatic dimensioning considering

SUBMITTER: Fuentes-Perez JF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10877356 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature