fish ladder

Think maybe I'll call in sick tomorrow!



If you weren’t already wasting enough time at work on the internet, here’s a great way cracker off a few more hours! The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers operates a live fish cam in the fish ladder at Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River. The camera refreshes every few seconds and you can watch salmon, steelies and shad passing over the dam. Be careful…it gets addictive!

If nothing happens to be going by when you’re watching, check out this video from the fall Chinook run.

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Why salmon should wear helmets

by JD on March 6, 2010

Our pal from the other side of the Pond, Franklin Moquette (our European correspondent), sent in this video of Atlantic salmon absolutely bashing their brains in against a weir on the Varde Aa in West Denmark as they try to leap it.

The frame above is grainy because I screen captured it off the video, but the movie has much better resolution. Read on for the link… [click to continue…]

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