F26AS00105 National Fish Passage Program
Funds removing dams, culverts and other barriers so fish and rivers reconnect.
An old culvert or dam doesn't just block a fish — it can cut off an entire river system from the habitat upstream, and a lot of the country's ageing water infrastructure was never built with that in mind.
What is funded is removing or replacing the barriers themselves: obsolete or dangerous infrastructure, culvert replacements, floodplain restoration and new fishways, delivered through US Fish an…
Removing or replacing barriers to fish passage — obsolete infrastructure, culverts, floodplain restoration, fishways — delivered through Fish and Wildlife Service field offices in partnership with state and local agencies, Tribes, other federal agencies, non-governmental organisations or private landowners.
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