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Eel ladder

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An eel ladder is type of fish ladder designed to help eels swim past barriers, such as dams and weirs or even natural barriers, to reach upriver feeding grounds. [1]

14 relations: Chicopee River, Dam, Eel, Eel buck, Eel life history, Elevator, Elver pass, Fish ladder, Fish migration, Fishing net, Massachusetts, Recycling, Spawn (biology), Weir.

Chicopee River

The Chicopee River is an U.S. Geological Survey.

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Dam

A dam is a barrier that stops or restricts the flow of water or underground streams.

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Eel

An eel is any ray-finned fish belonging to the order Anguilliformes, which consists of four suborders, 20 families, 111 genera and about 800 species.

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Eel buck

An eel buck or eel basket is a type of fish trap that was prevalent in the River Thames in England up to the 20th century.

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Eel life history

The eel is a long, thin bony fish of the order Anguilliformes.

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Elevator

An elevator (US and Canada) or lift (UK, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, and South Africa, Nigeria) is a type of vertical transportation that moves people or goods between floors (levels, decks) of a building, vessel, or other structure.

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Elver pass

An elver pass or eel pass is a waterway modification constructed to mitigate the effects of obstructions, especially manmade weirs, on waterways, watercourses, ditches, drains, channels and flumes, on the movement of eels, fish and elvers (junvenile eels).

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Fish ladder

A fish ladder, also known as a fishway, fish pass or fish steps, is a structure on or around artificial and natural barriers (such as dams, locks and waterfalls) to facilitate diadromous fishes' natural migration.

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Fish migration

Many types of fish migrate on a regular basis, on time scales ranging from daily to annually or longer, and over distances ranging from a few metres to thousands of kilometres.

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Fishing net

A fishing net is a net used for fishing.

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Massachusetts

Massachusetts, officially known as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.

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Recycling

Recycling is the process of converting waste materials into new materials and objects.

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Spawn (biology)

Spawn is the eggs and sperm released or deposited into water by aquatic animals.

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Weir

A weir or low head dam is a barrier across the horizontal width of a river that alters the flow characteristics of water and usually results in a change in the height of the river level.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eel_ladder

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