NOUN
- a series of ascending pools providing a passage for salmon to swim upstream past a dam
How To Use fish ladder In A Sentence
- Eberle described fish ladders as custom-built, aluminum or wood water chutes with baffles.
- One clever sea lion found his way into one of the dam's fish ladders, which allow salmon to bypass the dam's power station on their way to spawning grounds upriver.
- Fish ladders can be built, but they work only for small obstacles, and are no good for hydroelectric dams. Times, Sunday Times
- Al, when China has just completed the dam, originally built at a fish hatchery, called the "fish ladder.
- They created a high-tech fish ladder so species like giant catfish can get around the dam -- and to meet one local demand, they built an alligator slaughterhouse.
