Founder and CEO Boyd Kynard explains the water flow through the Fish Ladder experimental model at the BK-Riverfish Laboratory, Friday, Aug. 29, 2025, in Erving. Staff Photo/Daniel Jacobi II AMHERST — ...

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 ...

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 ...

KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. — Video captured a Chinook salmon successfully summiting the fish ladder at an upper Klamath River dam this week, according to the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife — the ...

It appears certain that fish passage at the Skagit dams, when implemented, will be a “trap and haul” system similar to the one on the Baker River. In such systems, as the name implies, traps collect ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...