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The salmon cannon

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The salmon cannon

Postby Papasequoia » October 31st, 2014, 4:40 pm

I saw this news story about a way to move salmon through a water cannon linked from Midcurrent. Pretty cool video.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/salmon-cannon-system-helps-transport-fish-upstream/
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Re: The salmon cannon

Postby rkfiske » November 1st, 2014, 8:18 am

That's pretty awesome. Reminds me of the futurama tubes!
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Re: The salmon cannon

Postby Wildman » November 1st, 2014, 9:14 am

Amazing how they adopted an apple siphon to fish. Very cool.
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Re: The salmon cannon

Postby DubL HauL » November 3rd, 2014, 2:54 pm

can you post the vid instead of the link?

Salmon you harvest yourself taste better.

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