This subject contains a 4 day Compulsory Residential School.
During the residential school students will receive practical reinforcement of theoretical components to help understand how best to mitigate the impacts of river development on fish. Students will undertake activities related to fisheries science and management as a profession. Students will visit a range of different movement and migration barriers from large dams to road crossings and have hands-on experience with mitigation tools, such as fishways. Students will be introduced to research and monitoring tools for understanding and quantifying fish movement and migration, through tagging and tracking studies. Students will also visit fisheries research stations and meet with research and management staff responsible for developing policies and implementing fish mitigation tools. This residential school will consist of two days laboratory techniques and two days fieldwork/excursion.