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Barriers in streams such as dams and undersized culverts can inhibit or block the ability of fish and other aquatic organisms to carry out their lifecycles and access key habitats. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s National Fish Passage Program works with partners across the country to...

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Fish passage is the ability of fish or other aquatic species to move throughout an aquatic system among all habitats necessary to complete their life cycle.
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Find a National Fish Passage project in your neighborhood. The National Fish Passage Program works with local communities on a voluntary basis to restore rivers and conserve our nation’s aquatic resources by removing or bypassing in-stream barriers.
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The National Fish Passage Program provides financial and technical assistance for projects that improve the ability of fish or other aquatic species to migrate by reconnecting habitat that has been fragmented by a barrier such as a dam or culvert. 
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Here you can find resources from across the Fish and Wildlife Service about threatened or endangered species.
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The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is providing funding to the National Fish Passage Program: The program works to restore degraded and fragmented aquatic habitats, which decreases public safety hazards and improves infrastructure resilience by reducing flood risks, removing obsolete dams, and...