Building of hydroelectric dams threatens the Danube salmon

#huchen #danube #salmon #riverwatch The existence of the Danube salmon, that can be the size of a man and can survive for 30-years, is threatened due to dam building. This is what Ulrich Eichelmann, the director of the environmental group Riverwatch, says about this majestic fish. This has been reported in bbc.com dated 23 March 2015.

The Danube salmon is also known as Hucho Hucho in Latin, and Huchen in German. It used to once be found in the Danube basin but is has been pushed out and is now seen in the Balkans, in the streams and rivers which tumble down the mountains and twist through the valleys between Slovenia and Montenegro.
Eichelmann laments that voices are raised to save the last tigers in the wild in Asia but no one bothers about the plight of the Danube salmon. These majestic fish are threatened basically due to the many hydroelectric dams that came up mostly in the 1950s and 60s and destroyed the spawning grounds of these fish and turned the river into a succession of lakes.

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