Projects

We’re passionate about helping to improve food security, and sustain both livelihoods and biodiversity on a global scale.

Current Projects

The IFRG is currently involved in the following projects:

Next Generation Water Engineering and River Management Hub

Project Location
South-eastern Australia

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FishTech: Integrating technical fisheries solutions into river development programs across South East Asia

Project Location
South East Asia

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Optimising fish passage at hydropower sites in the Mekong

Project Location
Lao PDR

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Completed Projects

The IFRG’s list of completed projects is located here:

Translating fish passage research outcomes into policy and legislation across South East Asia

Project Location
Lao PDR, Indonesia, Cambodia

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Assessing fisheries mitigation measures at Xayaburi Dam in Lao PDR

Project Location
Xayaburi Dam, Lao PDR

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Maccas in the Mannus: Bushfire Recovery

Project Location
Mannus Creek, NSW

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Fisheries monitoring in the Mekong Basin to assess impacts of mainstream hydropower projects as part of the Mekong River Joint Environment Monitoring (JEM)

Project Location
Lao PDR

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Modernising irrigated agriculture to protect and restore aquatic biodiversity and ecosystem services in South East Asia

Project Location
Myanmar and Indonesia

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Screens for Streams: Boosting native fish stocks through improved water extraction practices

Project Location
NSW

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Advancing fish-protection screening at Australian water diversions

Project Location
NSW

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Delta Flows: The Role that Delta’s play in sustaining basin-scale fisheries in the Mekong and Irrawaddy Rivers

Project Location
Lao PDR and Myanmar

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Basin-scale Evaluation and Research Services. Stage 2.

Project Location
Murray-Darling Basin

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Predicting the impacts of river development on fish movement and population connectivity: A case study on the Clarence River system

Project Location
The Clarence River, NSW, Australia

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Improving irrigation infrastructure

Project Location
Asia

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Murray River fishway assessments

Project Location
Southern Murray-Darling Basin

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Monitoring the ecological response of Commonwealth environmental water delivered in 2013-14 to the Murrumbidgee River

Project Location
Murrumbidgee River (Australia)

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Diadromous fish of the Mekong: Managing long distance fish migrations at mainstream dam sites

Project Location
Myanmar, Lao PDR, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam

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Develoment of fish passage technology for floodplains

Project Location
Lao PDR

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Pilot study for development of fish friendly irrigation and mini hydro design criteria for application in the Mekong and Murray-Darling basins

Project Location
Mekong and Murray-Darling basins

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Quantifying biophysical and community impacts of improved fish passage in Lao PDR and Myanmar

Project Location
Lao PDR and Myanmar

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In search of the elusive Mekong salmon

Project Location
Lower Mekong Basin

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Development of fish passage criteria for floodplain species of Central Laos

Project Location
Lao PDR (Bolikhamxay Province)

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Sustainable hydropower and multipurpose storage to meet the Water, Food and Energy SDGs

Project Location
Zambezi Basin of southern Africa, the Magdalena Basin of Colombia, and the Ayeyarwady (Irrawaddy) Basin of Myanmar

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PIT tag database

Project Location
Murray-Darling Basin

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