Working Lands for Fishery Resources

Humans have diverted water from natural sources for agricultural, industrial, municipal and various other uses for thousands of years. In doing so, fish have also been diverted away from their streams creating impasses between water users and fishery and aquatic conservationists. However, this doesn’t have to be the case. In recent years there have been a wide range of technologies and coordinated partnerships that have worked together to screen water diversions. These partnerships and technologies have instrumental on small scale water diversions sites where there have been successes in increasing the efficiencies of water withdrawals for working lands while maintaining the needs of the native fishery resources.

This talk will provide an overview of a few examples and discuss the technologies and process to achieve a win-win relationship between landowners and fishery resources.