Vertical slot fishway

Vertical slot fishway – Links and references

Vertical slot fishway examples:
1. Left: keyhole slot design in a vertical slot fishway, Yallakool Creek, New South Wales
2. Middle: precast concrete rectangular vertical slot baffle, showing rocky base of fishway and metal grate overhead, Yallakool Creek, New South Wales
3. Top-right: vertical slot fishway, showing rectangular slot design, Sheepstation Creek, Ayr, Queensland
4. Bottom-right: metal keyhole slot design in vertical slot fishway baffle, Chowilla Regulator, South Australia

Photo by Ivor Stuart (1,2 and 4), and Tim Marsden (3)

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• Links and references

• Berghuis, AP, Broadfoot, CD & Heidenreich, MJ (2000), Assessment of the Walla Weir Fishlock, Burnett River, Queensland Fisheries Service, Unpublished Report to SunWater, p. 42.
• Mallen-Cooper, M & Stuart, IG (5 January 2007), 'Optimising Denil fishways for passage of small and large fishes: Small and Large Fishes in Denil Fishways', Fisheries Management and Ecology. [online], vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 61-71. Available at: http://doi.wiley.com/10.1111/j.1365-2400.2006.00524.x [Accessed 10 November 2020].
• O’Connor, J, Stuart, I & Mallen-Cooper, M (2015), 'Performance, operation and maintenance guidelines for fishways and fish passage works', Trove. [online] Available at: https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-480267623 [Accessed 10 November 2020].
• O’Connor, J, Stuart, I & Jones, M (2017), Guidelines for the design, approval and construction of fishways, p. 67.

Last updated: 10 May 2021