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fish ladder
(redirected from Fish passage)

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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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Meanwhile, the state-owned Sodom Dam on the Calapooia several miles downstream from Brownsville is scheduled for a new state-of-the-art fish passage that should also improve fish runs.
``The lake level is good for the fish and good for the people, and we're very excited and happy to see the fish passage operating as it was designed to do,'' said Ron Merckling, a spokesman for the water district.
 
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