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I think we do for the big ones on the Columbia, etc. The small ones that are aging anyway get torn out.

• twothamendment 3y ago
  I'm in Montana and the river here during the spawn looks red with salmon. I don't know how many ladders they climbed, but it seems like they can work. These fish would have to have come up the Columbia river. Somewhere up the thread, a 3% success rate was thrown out, so maybe some designs are better than others.
  • kortilla 3y ago
    Where in Montana? Salmon generally don’t make it up the Colombia through ID into the Clark fork: https://www.mtpr.org/2022-09-28/why-arent-there-salmon-in-the-clark-fork-river https://www.mtpr.org/2022-09-28/why-arent-there-salmon-in-th... East of the divide is the Mississippi basin so that’s a whole different story.
    • twothamendment 3y ago
      The NW corner, but not part of the Clark Fork drainage. It is a sneaky little corner that refuses to flow with the rest of the state. Salmon snagging is a thing for us and the bears.
      • kortilla 3y ago
        If you’re referring to the Kokanee from Kootenay, they are a land-locked sockeye. I don’t think any ocean-goers make it to Libby.