Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An arrangement for enabling a fish to ascend a fall or a dam.
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- noun A
structure built on or arounddams orlocks to faciliate themigration offish .
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Examples
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Then there was the $430,000 spent on a '' fishway '' for fish to navigate the Audley weir in Royal National Park.
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After various amendments and additions this explicit definition of a fishway or slope was enacted into law in 1771:
The Bounty of the Chesapeake Fishing in Colonial Virginia James Wharton
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O'Hara cursed them and built a dam without a fishway, and sat beside it nights with a loaded shot-gun.
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For instance, water coming through a fishway has to be stronger than on the rest of the river, because shad are attracted to current flow.
NYT > Home Page By DEBORAH WEISBERG 2011
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The section from 400 feet upstream from # 5 fishway upstream to boundary markers below the Klickitat Salmon Hatchery will open to fishing for hatchery chinook jack and hatchery steelhead beginning June 1 under permanent rules.
The Seattle Times 2011
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But she believes the CalTrans proposal to build a fishway in Malibu could work.
Home By NOAKI SCHWARTZ 2010
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But she believes the CalTrans proposal to build a fishway in Malibu could work.
The Seattle Times 2010
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But she believes the CalTrans proposal to build a fishway in Malibu could work.
Home By NOAKI SCHWARTZ 2010
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The fishway has to be cleaned out daily during peak times.
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Stewart said the trash has also been an environmental problem because it gets stuck in the fishway where salmon are counted.
bilby commented on the word fishway
Also fish ladder, fish pass and fish step.
February 3, 2009
sionnach commented on the word fishway
Some fishway a lot more than you might think.
February 3, 2009