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The Ballard Locks carry more boat traffic than any other lock in the U.S., and the locks, along with the fish ladder and the surrounding Carl S. English Jr. Botanical Gardens, attract more than one million visitors annually, making it one of Seattle's top tourist attractions.
Herschel the sea lion was the moniker given to a series of male California sea lions in Seattle, Washington, United States. Herschel took up seasonal residence in the early to mid-1980s on the saltwater side of Seattle's Salmon Bay at the Ballard Locks where salmon runs were funneled into the fish ladder. Due to the volume of fish the groups ...
August 15, 2024 at 1:29 AM. SEATTLE - The Fish Ladder Lounge, a minority-owned business in , is being forced to close its doors for the last time in late August. The co-owners say they were ...
The difference between Chittenden and Ballard Locks on the Ngram graph is very small-- 0.000000700% vs 0.000000800% and not significant enough to give us clear guidance. The ngram viewer is also getting hits from large numbers of official documents published by the government, skewing the result self-referentially.
But about a mile upstream at a second fish ladder, and then several miles farther up still at a third fish passage where the river’s natal headwaters spill out of Indian Lake, state fisheries ...
Herschel (sea lion) Herschel the sea lion was a series of male California sea lions who came to national attention in the early to mid-1980s. Along with groups of smaller young males, Herschel took up seasonal residence on the saltwater side of Seattle's Salmon Bay at the Ballard Locks where salmon runs were funneled into the fish ladder.
The reason File:Locks-1.jpg gives a wider view is that the large lock is larger. The camera is on the west gate, 825 ft from the opposite gate. The small lock is less than 2/10ths as long and 3/8ths as wide. The distance from the vantage point on the small lock's gate to the opposite gate is only 150 ft, yet both locks are about equally deep.
A fish ladder, also known as a fishway, fish pass, fish steps, or fish cannon, is a structure on or around artificial and natural barriers (such as dams, locks and waterfalls) to facilitate diadromous fishes' natural migration as well as movements of potamodromous species. [1] Most fishways enable fish to pass around the barriers by swimming ...