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Stuttgart / Iffezheim (dpa / lsw) - Several hundred salmon are back in the Black Forest rivers on their way to spawn.
By November 1st, 200 animals swimming upstream from several rivers had been counted, said Agriculture Minister Peter Hauk (CDU) in Stuttgart on Friday.
That is one of the best results since the beginning of video recordings on the so-called fish pass of the Rhine power station Iffezheim (Rastatt district) 20 years ago.
Since 2001, Baden-Württemberg has been promoting the development of stocks of this particularly demanding fish species with a “salmon program”.
For this purpose, salmon are hatched and raised in rearing stations and then placed in the Upper Rhine tributaries.
From there the juvenile fish will migrate to the North Atlantic.
They return to spawn.
From Hauk's point of view, the return of the salmon to their home waters is a sign "that our extensive measures in the migratory fish program are increasingly crowned with success".
The Rhine salmon could one day occur again in stately numbers in local waters.
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