Last month, attorney Sarah Liljefelt organized a tour of the Whooshh Innovations fish passage structure constructed for the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife on the Washougal River. Members of the Oregon State Bar Environmental and Natural Resources Section attended, including attorneys in private practice, working for the State of Oregon, and public interest.
Whooshh has patented new technology that propels fish through a rubber tube fish canon from one location to another in mere seconds, be the end result a truck to haul fish, or to the other side of a dam as a new type of fish passage. Studies have shown that stress on the fish is lesser in the Whooshh system than traditional fish passage, and the cost is only a fraction of renovating a dam for traditional fish passage.
Check out videos of the Whooshh system (and fish flying through the system) at Whooshh’s website: http://www.whooshh.com/.
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