fish ladder
noun
: a series of pools arranged like steps by which fish can pass over a dam in going upstream
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From the visitor center’s outdoor platform, visitors can watch the spectacle of salmon and other fish swimming up a fish ladder — steelhead and sockeye salmon in early summer and chinook and coho salmon in September.
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Ben Davidson, The Mercury News, 17 June 2024
There are now thousands of dams throughout the Mississippi River Basin, most of which lack fish ladders or other structures allowing for fish passage.
—Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 24 Apr. 2024
Reports from earlier this month say that some 7,700 steelhead climbed a fish ladder at the Willamette Falls near Oregon City this year, and that number has likely grown since then.
—Travis Hall, Field & Stream, 18 Apr. 2024
Rather than pay to retrofit their dams with fish ladders, the utility opted for removal.
—Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Jan. 2024
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Ben Davidson, The Mercury News, 17 June 2024
There are now thousands of dams throughout the Mississippi River Basin, most of which lack fish ladders or other structures allowing for fish passage.
—Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 24 Apr. 2024
Reports from earlier this month say that some 7,700 steelhead climbed a fish ladder at the Willamette Falls near Oregon City this year, and that number has likely grown since then.
—Travis Hall, Field & Stream, 18 Apr. 2024
Rather than pay to retrofit their dams with fish ladders, the utility opted for removal.
—Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Jan. 2024
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“Fish ladder.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fish%20ladder. Accessed 27 Jul. 2024.
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