A five-year study to protect one of the world’s biggest inland fisheries in Laos, has received an additional $95,000 grant from a federal research agency.
A team of Australian and Lao researchers are testing the use of fish ladders to improve migration routes for fish in the lower Mekong river basin. A fish ladder is a series of pools and weirs that are built to allow fish to negotiate barriers in rivers such as dams and spillways.
The project is led by Lee Baumgartner, a freshwater ecologist from Charles Sturt University in rural New South Wales.
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