fish ladder

English

Noun

fish 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:
  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.

Synonyms

Translations

structure to facilitate migration of fish

Danish: fisketrappe c
Dutch: vistrap (nl) m
Finnish: kalaporras
French: passe à poissons (fr) f
German: Fischtreppe (de) f
Manx: (for salmon) aarey vraddan f
Norwegian: laksetrapp (no) m or f, fisketrapp m or f
Swedish: fisktrappa (sv) c

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