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ICPR – The Fish 2026 Expert Group meeting took place in Koblenz on February 3 and 4. You can find the detailed report from the first day here….

Telemetry Network Germany takes shape On February 16, 2026, scientists and stakeholders working on the topic of fish migration in Germany met in Hamburg. There are now a large number of projects dealing with fish migration. Acoustic telemetry in particular offers great potential for synergy if the various projects are aware of each other and […]

He was one of the co-founders of the Working Group for Fish Species and Water Protection in Northern Germany (AFGN). With the passing of Günter Brüning, the migratory fish community in Northern Germany has lost one of its most visionary and constructive minds. In 1978, salmon were released in Germany for the first time since […]

River Thjorsa is a glacier river in the South of Iceland. Measuring 230km it is the longest river of the island. Average waterflow in summer amounts to 350 to 700 m³/s. River Thjorsa homes the largest of all Icelandic Salmon stocks. There’s a dam and a hydropower plant already in the upper part of the […]

In the Bode, a tributary of the Saale in Saxony-Anhalt that is rich in fish and biodiversity in some sections, further significant improvements to fish migration corridors are on the horizon. After the weir in Oschersleben had already been demolished and converted into a near-natural channel, a spokesperson for the responsible ministry announced plans to […]