What is your connection to rivers?
Join World Fish Migration Day on May 23, 2026 and show the world your connection through art, music or any kind of event!
Register your event now on Worldfishmigrationday.com
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Fish need clean rivers to migrate and thrive. 🐟✨ Last World Fish Migration Day, we rolled up our sleeves for river cleanups around the world—because every piece of trash removed helps keep migration routes healthy. 🌊
Photo Credit: Wonders of the Mekong, Balkanka Bulgaria
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🌍🐟 Calling all young artists!
In celebration of World Fish Migration Day, the National Migratory Fish Award invites students around the world to create artwork inspired by migratory fish and the rivers they depend on. The contest is free to enter and encourages youth to explore the connection between fish, rivers, and people through art.
Entries are open to students from kindergarten through 12th grade, with prizes awarded across multiple age groups. Submit artwork by March 31 and help inspire the next generation of river stewards!
🎨 Learn more and submit artwork:
/national-migratory-fish-award/
Artist Credit: Demjan Aleksejev; Kertu-Kalda Joonistusvoistlus
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For Shantel Neptune DeMerchant, the Penobscot is family. Through fieldwork and community science, she helps safeguard water quality so future generations can fish, paddle, and thrive. When we protect rivers, we protect people.
Read more here: /shantel-neptune-demerchant-we-are-river-people/
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At the last World Fish Migration Day, students, biologists, and community members gave migratory fish a helping hand! Every fish release is a step towards healthier rivers and thriving ecosystems.
Photo credit: Andrea Starr PNNL, Rio Paraná
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World Fish Migration Day is powered by YOU! Join Chris Bowser from the Hudson River Estuary Program as he shares how you can get involved. Whether you're hosting an event or joining one near you- your participation helps connect fish, rivers, and people. Register or find an event today!
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From the Copperbelt to the Zambezi, Machaya Comba protects rivers by pairing technical expertise with deep respect for local context and Indigenous knowledge. His work reminds us that reconnecting river reconnects communities and migratory fish. Read more here: /machaya-chomba-we-are-river-people/
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At #WFMD2024, Happy Fish joined Yakama Nation Fisheries at their Pacific lamprey release celebration!
At this event, staff released adult lamprey into the Upper Yakima River to help them reach their upper basin spawning grounds. This helps them bypass barriers and conserve energy for their spawning season. Visitors got to learn more about the ecological and cultural importance of the lamprey and even release some themselves!
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World Fish Migration Day 2024 brought together experts and advocates from around the globe at conferences! From science to policy to community engagement, these events highlighted the collective effort to protect migratory fish and their habitats.
Photo credit: Kirsten Joy Harma, H2H Foundation, Centre for Ornithology and Natural History (SACON), Coimbatore India
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World Fish Migration Day celebrates incredible migrators - like these Chinook salmon- and the free-flowing rivers they depend on. Get ready to join the world in honoring these vital migrations and the waterways that make them possible!
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Young minds, big impact! Thousands of students around the world learned about migratory fish at education events during WFMD 2024. From Taiwan to Nigeria, inspiring the next generation of river stewards starts here!
Photo credit: TNC Mongolia; Grace Sanvictores; Iho Shen; Excellence Akeradolu
