Tongass National Forest
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Fisheries Enhancement Project

Indian River Fish Pass Construction and Coho Bioenhancement

Crew relaxes surrounded by rock and cement walls, cement forms, and a pump.

 

 

Cement trucks were a luxury unavailable to the crews pouring cement for the walls of the fish pass. Manual labor was the norm and conditions were less than ideal.

 

 

 

A view downstream shows a blue tarp over the work area located below the upper cement wall of the fish pass as the stream is diverted past it.

 

 

A view from above the project shows the precarious nature of the work place as work started on the "rungs" of the fish ladder.

 

 

 

Hard-hatted crew stands on the walls of the new fish pass watching the water before opening the gate and letting it into the structure.

 

 

The crew watched the flow before they let water into the new ladder.

 

 

 

Crew members stand on the walls watching water start to fill the fish pass.

 

 

Water started to fill the cells of the newly completed ladder.

 

 

 

 

 

The crew stands on the walls near the outlet of the newly operational fish pass.

The crew stood proudly on the results of their hard work
as water flowed through the cells, providing fish
a way around a formerly impassable waterfall.

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