Hi everyone,
One of our Fish Passage Action Team members, Kelly, captured this unusual footage whilst recently travelling in the USA to attend the International Fish Passage conference.
Pacific Lamprey are often overlooked when it comes to fish passage. These ancient creatures once outnumbered salmon in the rivers of the Pacific Northwest.
They are ecologically and culturally significant for indigenous people across the Pacific. Like salmon, they spend most of their lives at sea, returning to freshwater to spawn and die, bringing protein, minerals and nutrients inland from the ocean.
This short video shows lamprey at the top of the Bonneville Dam fish ladder on the Columbia River in the western USA.
They do seem to struggle to make it to the top, and there are many more dams to pass before reaching their spawning grounds.
The other fish in the window are salmon and American shad.
Enjoy the video [HERE]
