fish ladder
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editfish ladder (plural fish ladders)
- A structure built on or around dams or locks to facilitate the migration of fish.
- 1941, Emily Carr, chapter 18, in Klee Wyck[1]:
- We came to the base of an abnormally long perpendicular fish ladder, stretching up, up into shadow so overwhelmingly deep it seemed as if a pit had been inverted over our heads.
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editstructure to facilitate migration of fish
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