Location
Groningen, The Netherlands
Event Website
http://fishpassage.umass.edu/
Start Date
22-6-2015 3:00 PM
End Date
22-6-2015 3:15 PM
Description
Abstract:
In the context of fish welfare, pump manufacturers focus on the development of fish friendly pumps. The assessment of fish survivability in a field situation turns out to be difficult. Lack of migration (eels), presence of fish or insufficient species composition with a narrow range in length class at the moment of the research leads to unreliable conclusions. Therefore a guideline is developed, based on forced exposure of fish, to test and evaluate fish friendly pumps with a standardized method: “VisAdvies protocol for testing and evaluating pumping station pumps on fish survivability”. The protocol serves two purposes. First, the guideline gives direction to the way the test should be performed.
It advises in the fish species the numbers and size classes and the zero-groups (untreated fish) that should be used. It describes how damage and mortality should be categorized in different groups. Part of the test is the assessment of of delayed mortality that may take place a few days after the actual test.
In the second place is the guideline concerned with the evaluation of the results. The final outcome gives the score, based on the survivability rate of all species. A separate test should be carried out for all combinations of pump speed (rpm), discharge (m3/min), and head (m) that are of interest.
The protocol will be illustrated by means of a test in a dry dock in the Netherlands, on a pump of the Bedford company. The pump was especially designed to be fish friendly.
Session B2: VisAdvies Protocol for Testing and Evaluating Pumping Station Pumps on Fish Survivability
Groningen, The Netherlands
Abstract:
In the context of fish welfare, pump manufacturers focus on the development of fish friendly pumps. The assessment of fish survivability in a field situation turns out to be difficult. Lack of migration (eels), presence of fish or insufficient species composition with a narrow range in length class at the moment of the research leads to unreliable conclusions. Therefore a guideline is developed, based on forced exposure of fish, to test and evaluate fish friendly pumps with a standardized method: “VisAdvies protocol for testing and evaluating pumping station pumps on fish survivability”. The protocol serves two purposes. First, the guideline gives direction to the way the test should be performed.
It advises in the fish species the numbers and size classes and the zero-groups (untreated fish) that should be used. It describes how damage and mortality should be categorized in different groups. Part of the test is the assessment of of delayed mortality that may take place a few days after the actual test.
In the second place is the guideline concerned with the evaluation of the results. The final outcome gives the score, based on the survivability rate of all species. A separate test should be carried out for all combinations of pump speed (rpm), discharge (m3/min), and head (m) that are of interest.
The protocol will be illustrated by means of a test in a dry dock in the Netherlands, on a pump of the Bedford company. The pump was especially designed to be fish friendly.
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/fishpassage_conference/2015/June22/92
Comments
Presenting Author Bio: Hendry Vis works in the Netherlands at VisAdvies for seven years as a project leader. He is specialized in telemetry projects. With PIT telemetry he studies fish migration and the efficiency of fish passages.