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Jumping Salmon \(Edmonton Journal)The other day the Journal published a despatch from New Westminsterthat may have appealed to some as afanciful romance. These sceptics probably smiled in a superior eort of way and remarked to themselves that It was just another yarn from British Columbia* the homo of Ogopogo. The New Westminster story, you may remember, told of Cariboo sockeye salmon travelling overland between nearby creeks In order to give rivals ft sock In the eye and so live up to their name. It all sounded rather..strange.But old friends of the salmon are more than ready to believe the tale. Thoy know the ability of this fine fish to climb up waterfalls, and they see no reason why those of the tribe who feel so inclined should not flap ihelr way across a short stretch of grass, lying wet under a summer moon.These believers are ahle to huot*the official records of the federal depart ment of fisheries as lending support to their claim, Many naturalists have held that fish cannot climb over fifty feet by means of a natural fishway. Yet, on fhe beautiful Jfersey rivor, rising in Lake Ttosignot in Nova Root in, and which flows into the sea at Liverpool harbor, 75 milea southwest of Halifax, there is a fishway of greater height than this. When industrial works were constructed on the rivor, the department of fisheries constructed a fishway 59 feet high, without elevators. The official report is that the fish made the climb upriver last, season without difficulty. Observations by official* of the department lead them to the belief that the fish could climb much higher if necessary.
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Lethbridge Herald
Lethbridge, Alberta, CA
Mon, Oct 20, 1930
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Kevin S.
CA 18 Jun 2021
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