How to Use fish ladder in a Sentence

fish ladder

noun

• But the group hopes to install a fish ladder at the site.
  — John Laidler, BostonGlobe.com, 4 July 2019
• Small eels can use a fish ladder at the dams, while large eels are able to wriggle up and over.
  — Liz Bowie, baltimoresun.com, 17 May 2018
• Kids, teenagers and adults watched the release as harlequin ducks swam to the edge of the fish ladder, hoping to catch an afternoon snack.
  — Emily Mesner, Anchorage Daily News, 17 June 2021
• Jessica Nichols, the state biologist, works on the fish ladder along the Butte Creek.
  — Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2021
• Two huge fish ladders girded with thick bars brace the powerhouse.
  — Sallie Tisdale, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
• Children watch a salmon head into a fish ladder at Bonneville Dam.
  — Bill Weir and Rachel Clarke, CNN, 22 Oct. 2019
• The sea lions that discovered Bonneville quickly learned to go through the fish ladders.
  — Sallie Tisdale, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
• Ice Harbor Dam is about 100 feet high, with two fish ladders and a bypass route for juvenile fish heading to the ocean.
  — Bill Weir and Rachel Clarke, CNN, 22 Oct. 2019
• The dam was built without fish ladders more than 75 years ago, cutting off critical salmon runs.
  — Becky Kramer, The Seattle Times, 24 Mar. 2018
• The adult salmon swim up the Sacramento River and into Battle Creek, then up a fish ladder to the hatchery’s holding ponds.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2022
• More and better fish ladders, detours that allow fish to pass safely through the dams in ascending pools, were built.
  — Sallie Tisdale, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
• But in practice, modern science has deemed the whole fish ladder concept a giant failure.
  — Aja Romano, Vox, 11 Aug. 2019
• Despite the inclusion of fish ladders within major dams, there are white sturgeon in rivers like the Columbia year-round these days.
  — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 19 Oct. 2023
• The idea for a fish ladder to restore the natural trout breeding at the lake was first discussed years ago, when the Franconia Notch Parkway along Interstate 93 was built.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 27 Oct. 2021
• The fish ladder at Bonneville Dam, an hour east of Portland, Oregon, is the place to see these marathoners up close, and the greeters at the dam’s interpretive center understand the attraction.
  — Corey Arnold, National Geographic, 27 Mar. 2019
• Dams, even those with fish ladders, decimate salmon populations, as the fish make long upstream journeys to the spawning beds in which they were born in order to reproduce.
  — Eli Francovich, The Seattle Times, 19 Aug. 2019
• This can mean anything from providing accommodation for bats or building a fish ladder for the Atlantic salmon swimming through the River Boyne on site.
  — Theresa Christine, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2021
• While equipment such as fish ladders are designed to help salmon go up and over dams and enter upstream spawning areas, such measures aren't always effective.
  — Christina Nunez, National Geographic, 13 May 2019
• On average, Bryan said the Whooshh system is about 80% less expensive than more traditional methods of helping fish get around dams, such as fish ladders.
  — N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 12 Aug. 2019
• This dam, which was constructed without a fish ladder or bypass, cut off the paddlefish from their only spawning grounds upstream, which had only been discovered in the late 1970s.
  — National Geographic, 8 Jan. 2020
• The money pays for fish ladders around dams, habitat restoration projects, monitoring by scientists and other needs.
  — Matthew Brown, Fortune, 3 Jan. 2024
• But supporters of the dams point to the benefits of hydropower and navigation provided by the dams, and say fish ladders and other methods of transporting salmon past the dams are helping restore the runs.
  — Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2018
• The company's sold 20 of its salmon cannon systems -- which are much cheaper than traditional fish ladders, Bryant says -- to government agencies across the United States and Europe.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 12 Aug. 2019
• Permits from the federal and state government require installation of the fish ladder and eel passageway.
  — Tyra McClung, courant.com, 9 June 2019
• Some solutions that fall short of full dam removal, like installing a new fish ladder or removing the dam and replacing it with a series of smaller obstructions, which might not change water levels as much.
  — Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Apr. 2022
• To reach the location where it was found, the shark would have had to swim all that distance upriver while passing through eight major dams—all of which have fish ladders that are constantly being monitored by fisheries technicians.
  — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 16 Aug. 2023
• Several years ago, Skyline Mine’s previous owner installed a concrete fish ladder to help fish ascend from Electric Lake to the tiny reservoir, which state fisheries managers stock most years with rainbow trout.
  — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 June 2022
• Since the last of the dams was constructed in the 1970s, billions have been spent on salmon recovery — establishing hatcheries, constructing fish ladders and implementing other habitat restorations initiatives.
  — oregonlive, 29 Feb. 2020
• Other parts of this project included building better fish ladders and fish screens to give migrating salmon an easier time navigating around remaining obstacles.
  — Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2018
• In theory, fish ladders operated by simulating the way migratory fish swim upstream in real life.
  — Aja Romano, Vox, 11 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 2 Dec 2024