Improve fish passage with the FlexiBaffle

Check out this video of several FlexiBaffles in culverts throughout North America. The FlexiBaffle creates hydraulic conditions to improve the passage of fish and eels and other aquatic organisms. The flexible baffle material allows rocks, logs and other debris to pass through the culvert which eliminates expensive and dangerous maintenance required to remove the material. Also, the flexible baffles bend lay flat at high water, so they have minimal effect on culvert capacity.

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Shane Scott
Shane Scott is the principal of SSA Environmental, a Vancouver, Washington-based firm dedicated to protecting fish and other aquatic organisms at bridges, culverts, hydroelectric and diversion dams, municipal water systems, irrigation canals, and pump stations. He leads the development of FlexiBaffle, a flexible retrofit culvert baffle that restores fish-friendly passage (aquatic organism passage) inside existing culverts where a permanent cast-in-place baffle isn't practical. Shane works with state departments of transportation and resource agencies to bring practical, near-term fish-passage solutions to aging culvert infrastructure.