Events – World Fish Migration Day

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Chester Fish Monitoring Trap Open Day

2026-05-23 @ 11:00 (BST) - 2026-05-23 @ 14:00 (BST)

Chester Weir, Lower Bridge Street, Chester CH4 7JJ, UK

Education or awareness (formal, informal)

Land Art during Restoration of morane brooks in North Germany

2026-03-31 - 2026-10-15

Kirchenstieg, Ellerbek, Deutschland

Art Show - We Are River People

Open House- Upper Millpond Dam Fishway

2026-04-18 @ 13:00 (EDT) - 2026-04-18 @ 15:00 (EDT)

23 Killingworth Turnpike, Clinton, CT, USA

Site visit (river, fishway, clean-up)

Open House- Highland Pond Dam Removal

2026-04-18 @ 09:30 (EDT) - 2026-04-18 @ 11:30 (EDT)

350 Bell Street, Middletown, CT, USA

World Fish Migration Day Celebration!

335 Bayview Rd, Nobleboro, ME 04555, USA

Community celebration (festival, street fair, other)

Adam Ezra Concert

Lincoln Theater, Theater Street, Damariscotta, ME, USA

Live performance (play, concert, other)

11th Annual University of Maine Spawning Run 5K

2026-04-25 @ 09:00 (EDT) - 2026-04-25 @ 11:00 (EDT)

Grove Street Extension, Orono, ME, USA

Athletic event (meet-up, challenge, race)

Great Lakes migratory fishes

Shedd Aquarium, South DuSable Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL, USA

Professional event (conference, webinar, gala, other)

Los Peces que viajan

Iguá, Montevideo Departamento de Montevideo, Uruguay

Professional event (conference, webinar, gala, other)

CONECTANDO PECES Y PERSONAS

2026-05-23 @ 08:00 (-03) - 2026-05-23 @ 13:30 (-03)

Club Náutico Hernandarias, Costanera de Hernandarias, Hernandarias, Paraguay

Education or awareness (formal, informal)

Nuit des Aloses

2026-05-22 @ 22:30 (CEST) - 2026-05-22

Taillebourg, France

Site visit (river, fishway, clean-up)

Glass Eel Rescue

2026-05-21 @ 14:00 (CEST) - 2026-05-21 @ 18:00 (CEST)

Rimini, RN, Italia

Sturgeon restocking

2026-05-22 @ 09:00 (EEST) - 2026-05-22 @ 13:00 (EEST)

Gomotartsi, Bulgaria

Site visit (river, fishway, clean-up)

Cleaning up the river Vacha from garbage

2026-04-25 @ 09:00 (EEST) - 2026-04-25 @ 14:00 (EEST)

Joakim Gruevo, Bulgaria

Site visit (river, fishway, clean-up)

Amazon Forgotten Fishes report pre-launch

2026-04-26 @ 16:00 (-05) - 2026-05-02 @ 18:00 (-05)

Corferias, Carrera 37, Bogota, Colombia

Publication release (book, report, other)

The Fishway at Princess Point

Princess Point Canoe Launch, Hamilton, ON, Canada

Site visit (river, fishway, clean-up)

World Fish Migration Day: Community Art Event

2026-05-23 @ 02:00 (EDT) - 2026-05-23 @ 04:00 (EDT)

32 School Street, Unity, ME, USA

Community celebration (festival, street fair, other)

Hogyan, hová és miért úsznak a halak

Nick, Magyarország

Education or awareness (formal, informal)

Along a Free-Flowing River: From the Ipoly to the Danube

Malé Kosihy, Slovensko

Site visit (river, fishway, clean-up)

Mystic River Herring Run and Paddle

2026-05-17 @ 09:00 (EDT) - 2026-05-17 @ 14:00 (EDT)

Paddle Boston : Blessing of the Bay, Somerville, Shore Drive, Somerville, MA, USA

Athletic event (meet-up, challenge, race)

The River in Bangladesh : Species Conservation and livelihood Observation

Mymensingh, Bangladesh

Education or awareness (formal, informal)

AU FIL DE LA LOISANCE

2026-06-14 @ 09:30 (CEST) - 2026-06-14 @ 18:00 (CEST)

Le Lavoir d'Antrain, Val-Couesnon, France

Site visit (river, fishway, clean-up)

Healthy Salmon, Thriving Rivers, Strong Communities – Youth Lego Robotics Competition

2026-04-21 - 2026-04-23

Clarenville, NL, Canada

Participatory science event

River Connections: Art, Nature, and Salmon

2026-05-31 @ 13:00 (PDT) - 2026-05-31 @ 16:30 (PDT)

7155 187A Street, Surrey, BC, Canada

Art Show - We Are River People

Wild Salmon Day 2026 at Hyland Creek Park

2026-06-01 @ 15:00 (PDT) - 2026-06-01 @ 19:00 (PDT)

8985 Queen Mary Boulevard, Surrey, BC, Canada

Education or awareness (formal, informal)

World Fish Migration Day – Surrey, B.C. 2026

2026-05-23 @ 15:00 (PDT) - 2026-05-23 @ 18:00 (PDT)

9910 Whalley Boulevard, Surrey, BC, Canada

Education or awareness (formal, informal)

World Fish Migration Day – Hawaii 2026

2026-05-23 @ 09:00 (HST) - 2026-05-23 @ 13:30 (HST)

58-207 Kamehameha Hwy, Haleiwa, HI, USA

Education or awareness (formal, informal)

Hidden Rivers: A Free Film Screening

2026-05-09 @ 12:00 (EDT) - 2026-05-09 @ 16:00 (EDT)

SweetWater Brewing Company, Ottley Drive Northeast, Atlanta, GA, USA

Orland Migratory Fish Celebration

2026-05-23 @ 00:00 (AKDT) - @ 00:00 (AKDT)

Fish Point Road, Orland, Maine 04472, USA

Community celebration (festival, street fair, other)

Rejuvenation of Dying Rivers

2026-05-23 @ 09:00 (IST) - 2026-05-23 @ 16:00 (IST)

Seethanadi, Karnataka, India

Education or awareness (formal, informal)

Contra Costa Fish Migration Day

2026-05-30 @ 10:00 (CST) - 2026-05-30 @ 14:00 (CST)

1580 Pinole Valley Rd, Pinole, CA 94564, USA

Community celebration (festival, street fair, other)

World Fish Migration Day on the Sheepscot River

2026-05-29 @ 04:00 (EDT) - 2026-05-29 @ 05:30 (EDT)

Palermo Preserve, Turner Ridge Road, Palermo, ME, USA

Education or awareness (formal, informal)

We Are River People Nuno Felting exibit

2026-05-16 - 2026-06-07

Becket Arts Center, 7 Brooker Hill Rd, Becket, MA 01223, United States

Art Show - We Are River People

World Fish Migration Day

2026-04-23 - 2026-05-23

Alviela River, Portugal

Art Show - We Are River People

Educational Program on Taimen with student essay competition

2026-04-06 - 2026-05-23

Khuvsgul, Mongolia

Education or awareness (formal, informal)

Conservación y manejo sustentable de los peces migratorios en tiempos de transformaciones

2026-06-19 @ 09:00 (-03) - 2026-06-19 @ 17:00 (-03)

Ciudad de Santa Fe, Pcia de Santa Fe, Argentina

Participatory science event

World Fish Migration Day: A Day at the River

2026-05-23 @ 11:00 (PDT) - 2026-05-23 @ 15:00 (PDT)

44129 Sterling Highway, Soldotna, AK, USA

Education or awareness (formal, informal)

Vismigratiedag 2026

2026-05-23 @ 11:00 (CEST) - 2026-05-23 @ 15:00 (CEST)

Barend Ubbinkweg, Doesburg

Site visit (river, fishway, clean-up)

Celebrating the American Eel Extravaganza at Liberty State Park

2026-05-23 @ 09:00 (EDT) - 2026-05-23 @ 12:00 (EDT)

200 Morris Pesin Drive, Jersey City, NJ, USA

Community celebration (festival, street fair, other)

Gravel for Riffles – Giving back the natural brook bottom as spawning groung, passing obstacles by Riffle-Pool-Sequences.

2026-03-01 - 2026-10-15

River Pinnau, Pinneberger Straße, D - Quickborn-Renzel

Education or awareness (formal, informal)

Stream Stories

2025-11-26 - 2026-05-23

Universität für Bodenkultur Wien (BOKU), Gregor-Mendel-Straße, Vienna, Austria

Art Show - We Are River People

Swim to Survive: Celebrating Fish Migration in the Himalayas

2026-05-18 - 2026-05-19

Ganderbal District

Education or awareness (formal, informal)

Fresh Waters, Fresh Actions: A Nature Walk

Ganderbal District

Site visit (river, fishway, clean-up)

Heart of the Murray

Flowerdale VIC, Australia

Art Show - We Are River People

colorful jewels in the fish keeping world

2026-05-23 @ 16:30 (EDT) - 2026-05-23 @ 17:30 (EDT)

Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

Art Show - We Are River People

fish migration and free flowing rivers 2026

2026-05-23 @ 01:00 (+0545) - 2026-05-31 @ 05:00 (+0545)

Art Show - We Are River People

VI Conectando Peixes, Rios e Pessoas

2026-05-20 @ 08:30 (-03) - 2026-05-21 @ 17:00 (-03)

UNIP - Sorocaba - Av. Independência - Éden, Sorocaba - SP, Brasil

Participatory science event

Celebrate Our Royal River

2026-05-23 @ 10:00 (GMT) - 2026-05-23 @ 13:00 (GMT)

Royal River Park, East Elm Street, Yarmouth, ME, USA

Community celebration (festival, street fair, other)

Heroes of Fish Migration

Education or awareness (formal, informal)

International Fish Passage Conference

2026-05-04 - 2026-05-08

University of California Davis, One Shields Ave

Professional event (conference, webinar, gala, other)

Van zout naar zoet en terug

2026-05-23 @ 11:00 (CEST) - 2026-05-24 @ 17:00 (CEST)

Haven Lauwersoog, Lauwersoog

Education or awareness (formal, informal)

World Fish Migration Day 2026

Nga Yoke Kaung Beach, Nga Yoke Kaung, Myanmar (Burma)

Education or awareness (formal, informal)

Learning about the migration of juvenile sockeye salmon through Grand Coulee and Chief Joseph Dams, USA

2026-05-01 - 2026-05-31

Wenatchee, WA, USA

Professional event (conference, webinar, gala, other)

Something’s Fishy: The Migration Mystery

2025-10-08 @ 10:00 (PDT) - 2025-10-08 @ 11:00 (PDT)

Education or awareness (formal, informal)

Migration run (Corrida da Migração)

2026-05-23 @ 08:00 (-03) - 2026-05-23 @ 10:00 (-03)

Universidade Federal de Lavras - Inácio Valentim, Lavras - MG, Brasil

Athletic event (meet-up, challenge, race)

Alewife Migration Walk

2025-05-29 @ 10:00 (EDT) - 2025-05-29 @ 00:00 (EDT)

Mill Brook Preserve Trailhead, Westbrook, ME, USA

Education or awareness (formal, informal)

Bagaduce Alewife Celebration

2025-05-24 @ 11:00 (EDT) - 2025-05-24 @ 14:00 (EDT)

Pierce Pond, Penobscot, ME, USA

Community celebration (festival, street fair, other)

Somos nuestro rio: conocé a los peces de Misiones

Felix de Azara 1552 Posadas,

Education or awareness (formal, informal)

Commémoration de la Journée mondiale de la migration des poissons

Boulevard Thomas Sankara, Blvd Charles De Gaulle, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Education or awareness (formal, informal)

Fishpoint – Parcour from Monitoring to Exposition

2026-05-09 @ 11:00 (CEST) - 2026-05-10 @ 18:00 (CEST)

Krautheim-Gommersdorf, Deutschland

Demonstration (march, campaign, sit-in, other)

World Fish Migration Day in Hinsdale, NH

2026-05-23 @ 11:00 (EDT) - 2026-05-23 @ 16:00 (EDT)

Millstream Riverfront Park, Main St, Hinsdale, NH, USA

Community celebration (festival, street fair, other)

Discover the wonderful world of migratory fish.

2026-04-21 @ 09:00 (EEST) - 2026-05-21 @ 14:00 (EEST)

Conference Hall, Natural Sciences Museum Complex ”Răsvan Angheluță” Galați, Romania

Professional event (conference, webinar, gala, other)

Salmon Fest Art Show

2026-05-11 - 2026-05-31

Leavenworth, WA, USA

Art Show - We Are River People

Lower Hudson and Harbor World Fish Migration Day Fish Count

New York State, USA

Participatory science event

World Fish Migration Day – Houlton, Maine

2026-05-02 @ 10:00 (EDT) - 2026-05-02 @ 15:00 (EDT)

Houlton, ME, USA

Community celebration (festival, street fair, other)

World Fish Migration Day

Vismigratierivier, Kornwerderzand

Site visit (river, fishway, clean-up)

Fifth Annual Pennamaquan Alewife Festival

2026-05-23 @ 10:00 (EDT) - 2026-05-23 @ 17:00 (EDT)

12 Little Falls Road, Pembroke, ME 04666, USA

Community celebration (festival, street fair, other)

Benton Alewife Festival

2026-05-16 @ 11:00 (EDT) - 2026-05-16 @ 03:00 (EDT)

Benton Town Office, 1279 Clinton Ave, Benton, ME 04901

Community celebration (festival, street fair, other)

Run Free. River connectivity in blue dot catchment area.

2026-05-23 @ 10:00 (IST) - 2027-05-22 @ 11:30 (IST)

The Mill River Conservation Group, River, Ballymacarry Lower, Buncrana, County Donegal, Ireland

Professional event (conference, webinar, gala, other)

Run with the Alewives

2026-05-23 @ 09:00 (EDT) - 2026-05-23

335 Bayview Rd, Nobleboro, ME 04555, USA

Athletic event (meet-up, challenge, race)

RVA WFMD

2026-05-02 @ 10:00 (EDT) - 2026-05-02 @ 13:00 (EDT)

Ancarrow's Landing, Richmond, VA, USA

Community celebration (festival, street fair, other)

The Fish Doorbell (visdeurbel)

2026-05-23 @ 12:00 (GMT) - 2026-05-23 @ 15:00 (GMT)

Community celebration (festival, street fair, other)

Run For The River

Mymensingh, Bangladesh

Education or awareness (formal, informal)

Diglis Fish Pass Drop-in

Diglis Fish Pass, Weir Lane, Worcester WR2 4FF, UK

Site visit (river, fishway, clean-up)

Migratory Moments: An Exhibition Celebrating Our Connection to Rivers, Fish, and Wildlife

2026-05-02 @ 00:00 (EDT) - 2026-05-28 @ 00:00 (EDT)

South Hadley Public Library, Canal Street, South Hadley, MA, USA

Art Show - We Are River People

We Are River People Nuno Felting

2026-03-29 - 2026-06-20

Western Massachusetts, MA, USA

Art Show - We Are River People