Fishway

Word FISHWAY
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Definitions and meanings of "Fishway"

What do we mean by fishway?

A structure built on or around dams or locks to facilitate the migration of fish.

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The word "fishway" in example sentences

Then there was the $430,000 spent on a '' fishway '' for fish to navigate the Audley weir in Royal National Park. ❋ Unknown (2009)

After various amendments and additions this explicit definition of a fishway or slope was enacted into law in 1771: ❋ James Wharton (N/A)

O'Hara cursed them and built a dam without a fishway, and sat beside it nights with a loaded shot-gun. ❋ Unknown (1899)

For instance, water coming through a fishway has to be stronger than on the rest of the river, because shad are attracted to current flow. ❋ By DEBORAH WEISBERG (2011)

The section from 400 feet upstream from # 5 fishway upstream to boundary markers below the Klickitat Salmon Hatchery will open to fishing for hatchery chinook jack and hatchery steelhead beginning June 1 under permanent rules. ❋ Unknown (2011)

But she believes the CalTrans proposal to build a fishway in Malibu could work. ❋ By NOAKI SCHWARTZ (2010)

But she believes the proposal to build a fishway in Malibu could work. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The fishway has to be cleaned out daily during peak times. ❋ Unknown (2010)

They're considering operational changes - like decreasing the velocity of water going through the fishway at night - to help them enter the fish ladders. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Stewart said the trash has also been an environmental problem because it gets stuck in the fishway where salmon are counted. ❋ Unknown (2010)

SunWater chief executive Peter Boettcher said work was under way to operate the fishway after the dam reached its highest water level since it was constructed in November 2005. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"The dam's downstream fishway was designed to operate at (a level) of 62 metres and above," he said. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"Due to recent heavy rainfall in the upper catchment, the storage level in Paradise Dam has reached 63 metres elevation, sufficient to allow for the operation of the downstream fishway," he said. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Council spokesman Roger Currie said that when he visited the dam, on the Burnett River, on Monday the fishway was not operating despite there being suitable water levels for it to do so for the first time. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As of Feb. 26, there have been 992 winter steelhead counted passing through the Willamette Falls fishway.

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