Abstract: Fish passage facilities have been designed and developed to enable fish to pass the barriers for up/ downstream migration. The performance monitoring and evaluation of those facilities post the constructions are essential for the functional verifications, design improvements, and management benefits. This study reviewed the performance studies of fish passage facilities for upstream migration, from which the evaluation principles, methods for monitoring and regional technical standards were concluded. The scientific monitoring and evaluation of fish passage in North American, Australia and European was separately initialized from 1960s to 1980s, and boomed since 2000s. Both fish passage effectiveness and passage efficiency are separately used for a qualitative and quantitative evaluation of the performance of fish passage facilities. The existing monitoring methods, roughly classified as capturedependent and captureindependent, are frequently used for such performance evaluation, depending on the purpose and availabilities and limitations of given methods. Moreover, due to the variations in geographical feature of river, structure of fish passage facilities, target species considerations as well as the requirements from the regional laws and technical standards, the focus of approach and evaluation criteria varied significantly in geographic region. Currently, experts from North American frequently specialized in the passage efficiency evaluation and using the advanced captureindependent methods while experts from European frequently specialized in the effectiveness evaluation using both capturedependent and traditional captureindependent methods. Fish passage monitoring and evaluation in China began in 1970s, yet suspended between 1980s and 2000s, as results of the argumentations over mitigation options. Such studies rebooted because of the efforts of restoring fish populations with fish passage facilities from 2000s. As a consequence of construction boom of dam and fish passage facilities in China, the performances of such passage facilities will be a primary point of concern. Development of regional monitoring and evaluation criterions in China is urgently required. Those monitoring and evaluation are capable of drawing lessons from other countries. However, variations of geographical feature of river, structure of fish passage and consideration of target species must be recognized in China, comparing to those elsewhere.