Business trip report, Slovakia, Drozd (LIFE Living Rivers)

On November 14-17, 2025, Bořek Drozd (FFPW USB) participated with other project partners in the field part of the monitoring mission of the LIFE Living Rivers project (101069837/LIFE21-IPE-SK-Living Rivers), which evaluates the progress of the project to date. In the presence of both project auditors, the project sites concerned were visited, all activities carried out were presented, plans were discussed, and the overall concept of proposed changes to improve the ecological status of flowing waters in Slovakia was discussed. European Commissioner Federico de Filippi paid special attention to the passability of the Slovak part of the Danube (affected by the construction of the Gabčíkovo barrage system) for fish and to the telemetric monitoring of fish conducted by the University of South Bohemia. As part of the business trip, mobile telemetric monitoring of the tagged fishes (sturgeon, barbel, asp) was also carried out from a boat in the former river bed of the Danube River.

Written by: RNDr. Bořek Drozd, Ph.D.