Download or read book Development of Fish Passage Technology to Increase Fisheries Production on Floodplains in the Lower Mekong Basin written by Lee Baumgartner and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The project sought to primarily develop the first criteria for fish passage developed for Lower Mekong species but also understand the extent of current irrigation development and quantify potential social and economic benefits. A series of field-based assessments was devised to specifically answer three research questions: 1. What is the current extent of floodplain development in Central and Southern Laos? 2. Can effective low-cost fishways be constructed to mitigate the negative social, economic and environmental impacts of floodplain regulators? 3. Does the construction of permanently-operating fishways provide quantifiable social, economic and environmental benefits to floodplain wetlands and communities?"--Page 4.