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fish ladder
(redirected from Fish pass)

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fish ladder [′fish ‚lad·ər]
(civil engineering)
Contrivance that carries water around a dam through a series of stepped baffles or boxes and thus facilitates the migration of fish. Also known as fishway.


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These tiny snakelike fish pass through estuaries during the winter and then head up rivers the following spring, becoming yellowish as they grow.
 
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