fishway
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Other nonprofits that were part of the working group said the fishway announcement took them by surprise.
From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2023
Not all fish will find or use a fishway.
From Salon • Apr. 11, 2021
Shad were so diminished that fewer than 20 had passed the fishway of the former Veazie Dam over several decades.
From New York Times • Oct. 24, 2016
“If you have one bad dam or one bad fishway, then the fish really aren’t moving up the river,” says Theodore Castro-Santos, a research ecologist at USGS’s Conte Anadromous Fish Research Center in Massachusetts.
From Scientific American • Feb. 20, 2013
It is provided with a fishway, and some fish are known to surmount the dam by this means.
From The Salmon Fishery of Penobscot Bay and River in 1895-96 by Smith, Hugh McCormick
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