Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1915-08-27 | Page 2 | These Fish Need Ladders

Theie Flth Need Ladders. Salmon seeking to scale the impounding im-pounding wall at Gibraltar dam. on the Santa Ynei river, to reach the upper up-per canyons and spawn, are reported to he exhausting their strength and will die. The city has reared a wall over ten feet above the bed of the stream, over which the water is flowing. On the top of the wall Is a slight shelving where the fish, seeking to make the long leap, land, and they are carried by the flow back down the stream again. Engineer ryzol. who is in charge of the city's reservoir works, reports he has watched divens of big salmon or salmon trout try to make the leap and fall, nnd he Is of the opinion that all will eventually die When the Impounding wall was built the city did not provide for a fish ladder, hence the trouble - Santa Barbara Dispatch to 1,0s Angeles Times.