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St. Joseph River Fish Passage Inventory
Potawatomi RC&D Council
The Potawatomi Resource Conservation & Development Council has been awarded approximately $39,000 from the US Fish and Wildlife Service to inventory and prioritize barriers to fish passage in the St. Joseph River Watershed. The St. Joseph River basin, located in southwest Michigan and northeast Indiana, is the third largest river basin in Michigan. Natural movements of fish throughout the watershed are restricted or eliminated due to approximately 190 dams and an unknown number of “impassable” culverts. Artificial barriers such as dams, weirs, causeways, and perched or under-sized culverts obstruct the free passage of native fish by preventing or impeding their movement from one part of a stream or river system to another.
