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Fishway, Mondego, Coimbra, PT

Thematic Area
Water and Cities
Location
Coimbra, PT
Application Areas
Water Resources
Scope
Central Administration
Fishway
View of the fishway from the building
Fishway
Açude-ponte building
Pools

Entity

Description

The Coimbra dam was built in the 1980s for irrigation, public and industrial supply and flood control. Since that date, it has been an obstacle to the migration of fish species although it was equipped with a fishway. Its inefficiency resulted from structural and hydraulic problems.

In 2011, after several years of monitoring and biological and hydraulic studies, a new fishway was built next to the previous one and in 2015 another specific for eels.