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Californian officials spend £10.8 million($16.7 million) on 'fish ladders'
telegraph ^ | 26 Apr 2010

Posted on 04/26/2010 7:37:52 AM PDT by JoeProBono

Californian officials have been accused of wasting millions of dollars on concrete fish ladders, cameras and fishways to allow endangered trout to spawn in streams.

Conservationists say there is little evidence construction efforts since the 1980s have done anything except absorb taxpayers' money.

The work to save the steelhead species has led to about a dozen concrete fishways at a cost of more than $16.7 million (£10.8 million)

One fish ladder would require fish to leap 8ft (2m) to reach it. "If we do a series of rubbish projects like fish ladders to nowhere ... then the public trust for giving money for these types of projects is going to go away," said Mark Abramson, a conservationist at the Santa Monica Bay Restoration Foundation.

The latest project is a $935,000 effort pave over part of a popular beach with cement and boulders to build a freeway of for fish.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


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KEYWORDS: californian; fish; fishladders; jpb

1 posted on 04/26/2010 7:37:52 AM PDT by JoeProBono
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To: JoeProBono

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“fish ladders to nowhere” — Kinda sums up the entire ‘Rat program.


2 posted on 04/26/2010 7:47:38 AM PDT by Touch Not the Cat (Where is the light? Wonder if it's weeping somewhere...)
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To: Touch Not the Cat
What no escalator for differentially abled fish?
3 posted on 04/26/2010 7:50:44 AM PDT by dblshot (Insanity - electing the same people over and over and expecting different results.)
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To: JoeProBono

“A woman needs a man like a fish needs a ladder” — Gloria Steinem


4 posted on 04/26/2010 7:52:05 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: JoeProBono
How about fish catapults to fling them safely past any waiting bears (and entertain us on Youtube videos).
5 posted on 04/26/2010 8:04:44 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Obamacare: The 2010 version of the Intolerable Acts.)
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To: KarlInOhio

6 posted on 04/26/2010 8:11:08 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: KarlInOhio
"How about fish catapults to fling them safely past any waiting bears (and entertain us on Youtube videos)."

Good one, perhaps water cannons too!

7 posted on 04/26/2010 8:11:27 AM PDT by Dem Guard
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"Conservationists say there is little evidence construction efforts since the 1980s have done anything except absorb taxpayers' money. "

This is the problem. If they actually worked, I guess a reasonable argument could be made for building them. But, none of the scientific evidence suggests that they work (at least for these species of fish, clearly they do work for some, like salmon). Why are we still building them.

8 posted on 04/26/2010 8:16:55 AM PDT by OldDeckHand
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To: JoeProBono

Californian officials have fish ladders = New house,New car,apartment for girl friend,car for girl friend.......


9 posted on 04/26/2010 8:44:41 AM PDT by Vaduz
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