The association is currently investing 8.2 million euros to build a bypass waterway at the Braunau-Simbach Inn power plant. The main aim is to restore continuity and create new river habitats. The project at the Ering-Frauenstein Inn power plant shows that this can be achieved. It was put into operation in 2019 and since then 40,000 fish have swum past the power plant. The size of one catfish was sensational: at an impressive 1.2 meters, it easily made it to the other side of the power plant thanks to the bypass waterway. 36 different species of fish were counted in the Inn in these five years, and nature lovers are particularly pleased that even a few specimens of the endangered stonegrass were spotted in the bypass waterway.
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