Fish Protection Prize
Awards up to $700,000 in cash and vouchers for fish-exclusion technology at water diversions.
DOE's Water Power Technologies Office runs this jointly with the Bureau of Reclamation, building on an earlier Fish Exclusion Prize the Bureau ran on its own. Teams move through three stages, from concept, to a technical design and research plan, to prototyping and field testing, with expertise from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory helping teams develop their concepts along the way. Nine fina…
The prize funds new fish-exclusion technology to keep fish out of water diversions, pipes, and intakes at hydropower dams and other water infrastructure. It highlights six target approaches: sensory deterrents, turbulence and velocity-based deterrents, combination stimulus barriers, diversion or intake layout redesigns, fish screen materials and coatings, and fish screen cleaning methods.
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