The flow-refuges, made of composite, were installed downstream Bragado and Covas do Barroso Small Hydropower Plants. During the Task 2 of the project, we tested different flow-refuges in the laboratory in order to select the best configuration, which means, the one that exhibited the highest use frequency and the lowest individual stress (measured by means …
The field work of EcoPeak4Fish concerning Task 1 (Fish ecology and microhabitat assessment) has ended last week. For two weeks – one in Spring (the spawning period) and the other on Late-summer (the growing period) – the research team from the EcoPeak4fish was able to sample and quantify microhabitat use and availability of fish species …
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On the 20th of May we went to the north to select candidate reference and hydropeaking-affected sites to study fish microhabitat use in near-natural rivers and in rivers affected by hydropeaking. We have selected the hydropeaking-affected sites downstream Bragado HPP at Avelames River and Covas do Barroso HPP at Covas River. Regarding the reference streams …
