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Lewis & Clark's Columbia River - "200 Years Later"
"A View into the Fish Ladder"
Includes ... Bonneville Dam Fish Ladder ...
Image, 2005, Bonneville Dam Fish Window, click to enlarge
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"A view into the fish ladder", Bonneville Dam Fish Viewing Window. Bonneville Dam's Washington side Fish Viewing Window. Image taken June 19, 2005.


Bonneville Dam Fish Ladders ...
The Bonneville Dam complex has two fish ladders and fish viewing windows, one on eash side of the Columbia River. Fish counting stations are set up on both ladders.

"A View into the Fish Ladder" ...
Images shot using a Sony Cybershot 7.2 megapixel digital camera, at the fish ladder at the North Powerhouse of Bonneville Dam. The water of August 27th was much clearer and ran faster. Use of a flash almost washed the image out. The water of June 19th was the "dirtiest" and both in June and May a flash was necessary for detail.

Image, 2005, Bonneville Dam Fish Window, click to enlarge
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Bonneville Dam Fish Viewing Window. Bright white spots are flash reflection. Image taken June 19, 2005.
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Bonneville Dam Fish Viewing Window. Image taken July 2, 2006.


August 27, 2005 ...
The fish count for August 27, 2005, for the Washington fish ladder was: 1,663 Chinook salmon adults, 58 Chinook jacks, 1,621 Steelhead (total), 367 Steelhead (wild), 42 shad, 368 Coho adults, 32 Coho jacks, 0 Sockeye salmon, and 0 Lamprey.

Image, 2005, Bonneville Dam Fish Window, click to enlarge
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Salmon, Bonneville Dam Fish Viewing Window. Colored lines on fish are window reflection. Image taken August 27, 2005.
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Salmon, Bonneville Dam Fish Viewing Window. Image taken August 27, 2005.
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Salmon, Bonneville Dam Fish Viewing Window. Image taken August 27, 2005.
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Salmon, Bonneville Dam Fish Viewing Window. Image taken August 27, 2005.
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Salmon, Bonneville Dam Fish Viewing Window. Red spot is flash reflection. Image taken August 27, 2005.
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Salmon, Bonneville Dam Fish Viewing Window. Red spot is flash reflection. Image taken August 27, 2005.
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Salmon, Bonneville Dam Fish Viewing Window. Image taken August 27, 2005.


June 19, 2005 ...
The fish count for June 19, 2005, for the Washington fish ladder was: 1,103 Chinook salmon adults, 92 Chinook jacks, 221 Steelhead (total), 76 Steelhead (wild), 20,630 Shad, 1,850 Sockeye salmon, and 149 Lamprey.

Image, 2005, Bonneville Dam Fish Window, click to enlarge
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Salmon, Bonneville Dam Fish Viewing Window. A lamprey is attached at the top. Smaller fish in shadow are shad. Image taken June 19, 2005.
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Salmon with Shad, Bonneville Dam Fish Viewing Window. Bright white spots are flash reflection. Image taken June 19, 2005.
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Salmon with Shad, Bonneville Dam Fish Viewing Window. Image taken June 19, 2005.
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Salmon with Shad, Bonneville Dam Fish Viewing Window. Bright white spots are flash reflection. Image taken June 19, 2005.
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Two Sockeye, with Shad, Bonneville Dam Fish Viewing Window. Bright white spots are flash reflection. Image taken June 19, 2005.
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Shad, Bonneville Dam Fish Viewing Window. Bright white spots are flash reflection. Image taken June 19, 2005.
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Lamprey, Bonneville Dam Fish Viewing Window. Stripes on right are reflections. Image taken June 19, 2005.
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Shad and Lamprey, Bonneville Dam Fish Viewing Window. Bright white spots are flash reflection. Image taken June 19, 2005.


May 13, 2005 ...
The fish count for May 13, 2005, for the Washington fish ladder was: 520 Chinook salmon adults, 84 Chinook jacks, 22 Steelhead (total), 4 Steelhead (wild), 784 Shad, 2 Sockeye salmon, 35 Lamprey, and 1 Coho salmon adult.

Image, 2005, Bonneville Dam Fish Window, click to enlarge
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Salmon and Lamprey, Bonneville Dam Fish Viewing Window. Image taken May 13, 2005.
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Wild Salmon, Bonneville Dam Fish Viewing Window. Image taken May 13, 2005.


July 2, 2006 ...

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Lamprey, Bonneville Dam Fish Viewing Window. Image taken July 2, 2006.


From the Journals of Lewis and Clark ...

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*River Miles [RM] are approximate, in statute miles, and were determined from USGS topo maps, obtained from NOAA nautical charts, or obtained from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Website, 2003

Sources: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Website, 2005, Bonneville Dam.

All Lewis and Clark quotations from Gary Moulton editions of the Lewis and Clark Journals, University of Nebraska Press, all attempts have been made to type the quotations exactly as in the Moulton editions, however typing errors introduced by this web author cannot be ruled out; location interpretation from variety of sources, including this website author.
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