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Close to 200 Basin industry and community members recently visited Hume Dam as part of River Reflections in June 2024. Here’s what they learnt.

Water infrastructure is a term which can apply to a range of assets: dams, weirs, flood levees and embankments, fishways, regulators, pump stations, managed aquifer recharge ponds and injection wells and desalination plants.

To understand how fish are counted in fishways, first it is important to understand why we want to count these fish in the first place.

Since 1922, when the first weir was constructed, there have been efforts to help fish move through the waterways. Our timeline shows the progress of the fishway infrastructure.

Fishways are important for the passage of fish through barriers such as weirs, to allow them to migrate up and down a river. There are many fishways along the River Murray. Learn about how they work, their types, locations, history and fish movement.

The spillway gates at Hume Dam will open this week as the Murray–Darling Basin Authority and WaterNSW carry out routine maintenance.