Fira fisken – Celebrate the fish
Every year there is a Children’s Festival in Västerås, Sweden. This year, LIFE IP Rich Waters are on site by the fauna passage by Turbinhuset in the city centre. We invite all families to come and celebrate the fish and their new possibilities to migrate!
- We offer a quiz walk with educational questions about the fish and animals that live in the river Svartån.
- The fauna passage is situated by Turbinhuset. It was built in 1891 and is one of Sweden’s oldest power stations. And it’s actually still running and producing electricity! Turbinhuset will be open – so take the opportunity to check it out!
- Learn more about water, nature and the environment! The County Administrative Board of Västmanland, the Mälaren Water Conservation Association and the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation are on site.
Additional Details
Name of contact person - Anna Andersson Ax
Country - Sweden
Organizer
The Swedish project LIFE IP Rich Waters tackles some of the most serious environmental problems that affect the quality and vitality of the water bodies of the Northern Baltic Sea River Basin – eutrophication, barriers to fish migration and environmental pollutants. LIFE IP Rich Waters aims at developing new and better methods to combat these problems in a cost-effective way. The project is a partnership between authorities, municipalities, companies, researchers and water conservation associations – for the benefit of our common waters.
Venue
The fauna passage in the city centre of Västerås has been built with the support of LIFE IP Rich Waters and was inaugurated in June 2019. It opens up migration possibilities from Lake Mälaren and up river Svartån for the first time since 1891.
