fish ladder

/fɪʃ ˌlædər/
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Other forms: fish ladders

Definitions of fish ladder
  1. noun
    a series of ascending pools providing a passage for salmon to swim upstream past a dam
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    type of:
    passage
    a way through or along which someone or something may pass
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