salmon ladder

British  

noun

1. 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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Example Sentences

Other days he concentrates on weightlifting, explosive movement or ninja exercises, like the salmon ladder or shrinking steps.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 17, 2022

The movie’s namesake was derived from the salmon ladder in Ketchikan Creek near Married Man’s Trail and Park Avenue.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 12, 2021

“Monkey bars, salmon ladder, a couple of ropes.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2016

Loughs Mask and Corrib are connected by a salmon ladder, and contain large trout.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various

I doubt much if the quinnat could tackle an ordinary artificial salmon ladder, though there are undoubtedly numbers of streams in British Columbia which could be rendered navigable to Salmo salar by such means.

From Fishing in British Columbia With a Chapter on Tuna Fishing at Santa Catalina by Lambert, Thomas Wilson