Fish ladders were designed to help migrating species like salmon bypass dams but do they actually work? In this video, we explore how fish ladders function, why many fail, and the surprising ...

VERNON, Vt. (WCAX) - It’s the time of year when many species of fish are heading upstream to spawn, but human-made dams, especially on the Connecticut River, can pose a challenge to their passage. In ...

AMHERST — Boyd Kynard of Amherst founded the BK-Riverfish environmental consulting business under the premise that too many fish in rivers throughout the United States and around the world are impeded ...

Water flows through rapids Wednesday, Sept. 24, at the Pinicon Ridge Park Dam in Central City. The low-head dam, built in 1967, was modified in 2023 to reduce the swirling water effect that increases ...

The lower half of a fish ladder at Bonneville Lock & Dam in Cascade Locks remains unchanged as upgrades focus on the upper section. A new $8 million project at the Bonneville Lock & Dam aims to make ...

BONNEVILLE DAM — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is gutting and rebuilding a large section of Bonneville Dam’s fish ladder to make it easier for Pacific lamprey to pass the dam as they return from ...

The alewife spawning season that begins this month across Long Island will be helped by several fish passages constructed over the past two years to provide the feeder fish access to spawning waters ...

A salmon passed through the fish ladder of a key dam on the upper Klamath River on Sept. 24, in what wildlife officials hope is a sign of the iconic fish repopulating ever-greater stretches of the ...

THOMPSON FALLS — Brent Mabbott says it was a curious sight, the fish they’d see leaping out of the water and onto rocks here. The fish just wanted to do what comes naturally, swim upstream in the ...