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salmon ladder
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salmon ladder
a series of steps in a river designed to enable salmon to bypass a dam and move upstream to their breeding grounds


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Doug Brown of the River Kelvin Angling Association, who helped pioneer the regeneration of the river which now has salmon ladders to give migratory fish better access, tells me there is a lot of hope for anglers young and old in the future.
Fishing: CITY FISHING IS THE REEL DEAL by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
An EA scheme to bring back salmon to the River Thames which has cost an estimated pounds 10m, has worked out at pounds 6,000 a fish, it is claimed Experts predicted that the project to build salmon ladders to help the migratory fish return to their rearing grounds would mean thousands of salmon in the river.
Disaster as Agency faces farm elimination by Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)
It has supported and enabled 190 major projects but hundreds of smaller schemes too, from improvements to village halls and parish centres to local parks, salmon ladders in the Thames and a Hindu temple in the Midlands.
The UK in Y2K by CHRIS SMITH, RT HON / The Architectural Review
 
 
 
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