IMARES uses a range of computer models for calculating carrying capacity, distribution of seals, effects of marine areas closed to fishing, etc.
Together with Deltares, IMARES has developed a model that predicts how fish larvae spread along the coast due to currents; this is important to effectively predict certain effects, such as those caused by the construction of wind turbine parks at sea.
Sprintfish is a simple modelling tool to calculate the sprinting capability of fish to pass barriers or water currents. For this, sprintfish uses species-specific swimming capacity parameters and based on values that the user fills in for water temperature, distance that fish has to cover and water velocity that a fish has to overcome.
Sprintfish is developed by IMARES and is free available for all on line internet-users (no download required). It can be used by researchers, engineers or water managers to calculate and test (designs for) fishways, sluices, weirs, inlets for cooling water of hydropowers stations on the capability of a wide range of European fish species to overcome or escape the given conditions.
>> Go to the Modelling tool "Sprintish"