This Help File is designed to provide you with detailed information about how to use the FishXing Software and includes an extensive reference section to provide a better understanding of fish passage through culverts for making informed decisions about analysis and design of culverts for stream crossings.

FishXing Help is divided into two sections as shown on the FishXing Table of Contents:

• Using the Software - Provides explanations of all the input fields on the Crossing Input Window, how FishXing performs calculations, Viewing results and  Examples

• References - Additional information about Culverts, Hydraulics and Fish Performance. A glossary of terms and links to fish passage resources are also provided

A good place to start in understanding the flow of the program is the Software Map which can also be used to jump to parts of the Help file.

• The Previous button will take you to the previous topic in the Table of Contents

• The Next Button will take you to the next topic in the Table of Contents

• The Book button will take you to the topic level Table of Contents

• There are two kinds of links in this help system:

• A normal link (solid underline) that will point you to another topic in the help system, for example, this link goes to credits.

• A pop up link (dashed underline) that will pop up either text or imagery to quickly illustrate a point. For example, here's a few images of fish leaping.

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 A pdf version of this help manual that can be printed is available at:

 http://www.fsl.orst.edu/geowater/FX3/FX3_manual.pdf

See also: Feature List, Help System Table of Contents