Fish Protection Systems

Wherever large volumes of water are abstracted from rivers, lakes, reservoirs, estuaries or oceans, preventing fish and other species from entering water intakes is becoming increasingly important. Ovivo's fish protection systems are designed not only to meet legislative requirements and increasing demands for environmentally friendly practice, but also provides operational benefits to the plant owner by significantly reducing trash handling and disposal costs through a reduction in fish mortality. Ovivo's fish guidance systems can also help eliminate plant outages that can arise from the sudden influx of a large shoals of fish which can result in high headlosses leading to equipment damage.

Ovivo offers some of the world's leading technologies in fish protection, from traditional physical screen barriers to non-physical, behavioral barriers and fish recovery and return systems. We offer a portfolio of different products and techniques that are known to work best for specific species, fish life stages and intake environments.

Key Features & Benefits

• Deters fish from entering water intakes
• Suitable for most intake types
• Range of site and species specific technology available
• Meets increasing demand for marine life conservation worldwide
• Safeguards the future of fish and other aquatic species