FlexiBaffle Research: Fish Passage in New York State

The New York Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) is working in cooperation with Trout Unlimited to study fish passage through a perched culvert within the Beaver Kill drainage in Delaware County. DEC staff installed FlexiBaffles in a culvert to improve fish passage.

They are now using RFID fish tag technology to evaluate the passage of three trout species through the culvert outfit with FlexiBaffles. The DEC created a great video explaining this project. We look forward to working with these groups on future successful fish passage projects. Please contact us if you need information on the #flexibaffle. #TU #fishpassage #culvert #conservation

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.

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