An underwater camera was installed in the Mianus Pond Fishway during the spring of 2009 to improve the Town’s monitoring efforts. The camera is located in the fishway exit so that migratory fish can be identified and enumerated before passing into the Mianus Pond or back out to the Long Island Sound. Live streaming footage of the underwater camera can be watched below via QuickTime player.
The Fishladder Webcam requires QuickTime 7 or newer. Click the logo to download and update QuickTime on your computer.
If you cannot see the live fishcam at the link above, try the following: 1) Open QuickTime player on your computer and click on file. 2) Click on open URL and type in the following web URL: rtsp://streaming.greenwich.org/fishway.sdp.
About the Camera The camera is positioned so that the water is flowing from left to right (downstream); fish will pass in both directions from right to left (upstream) or left to right (downstream). The camera will be in use during peak migration periods; spring (river herring) and fall/early winter (American eels & sea-run brown trout), or as water flows dictate. The best opportunity for observing fish will be during the spring herring migration from late March through mid – to late June.
For more information email Brian Eltz , Town of Greenwich Conservation Assistant, or call 203-622-6461. In addition, we have attached short archived video files of species utilizing the fishway. Support for the underwater camera was provided by the Long Island Sound Futures Fund, Mianus River Watershed Council, Town of Greenwich, USGS Silvio O. Conte Anadromous Fish Research Center, Mianus Chapter of Trout Unlimited, Connecticut DEP Inland Fisheries Division Diadromous Program, GCTV 79, Greenwich Adult Day Care, and Mianus Pond Fishway volunteer monitors.
The camera is positioned so that the water is flowing from left to right (downstream); fish will pass in both directions from right to left (upstream) or left to right (downstream). The camera will be in use during peak migration periods; spring (river herring) and fall/early winter (American eels & sea-run brown trout), or as water flows dictate. The best opportunity for observing fish will be during the spring herring migration from late March through mid – to late June.
