The invention relates to the technical field of
hydraulic engineering, and discloses a stepped fishway which comprises an overflow channel, flow guide plates and a water supplementing
assembly, a plurality of groups of flow guide plates are arranged in the stepped overflow channel, a plurality of fishway grooves are formed by the adjacent flow guide plates and the overflow channel, and the fishway groove at the bottommost end is communicated with a downstream
water body of a dam. When the flow of the river channel is in a
normal range, water flows from the upstream to the downstream of the dam along the overflow channel, and flows into and fills the fishway groove; and the
backtracking fishes jump from the fishway grooves in the low position to the fishway grooves in the high position step by step, and the
backtracking process is completed. The water supplementing
assembly is arranged, when the flow of the river channel is
cut off or the flow is lower than the
normal range, the water supplementing
assembly starts related water supplementing work, the pump body is driven to pump downstream water of the dam, water is conveyed into the fishway grooves through the water inlet
pipe, and after the
water level of the fishway grooves is increased,
backtracking fishes jump to the fishway grooves at the high position from the fishway grooves at the low position step by step; and the backtracking process is completed. The invention further provides a fishway water replenishing method.