Project description
The LIFE Blue Belt Danube Inn project aims to preserve and improve endangered river fish on the Danube and Inn. The Jochenstein (Danube), Schärding-Neuhaus (Inn) and Passau-Ingling (Inn) power plants will be equipped with fish migration aids. The Austrian Danube power plants Aschach and Ybbs-Persenbeug will also become barrier-free. Ultimately, the Danube is to become fish passable by 2027. The riverbank structures on the Danube and Inn will create habitats and protected spawning zones for Danube fish.
With an investment totalling 60 million euros, comprehensive measures in the form of fish migration aids and bank restructuring are intended to bring about ecological improvements. This is intended to tie in with the parallel LIFE Riverscape Lower Inn project. The focus is on freshwater fish, which, as medium-distance migrants, require connected habitats on the Danube and Inn.