Truemors
Whitehorse Fish Ladder and Dam 
(see all 3 images, the other two are of the ladder itself)
Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada.
Hydro Dam & Fish Ladder, located upstream of the Robert Campbell Bridge, is a hydroelectric dam that provides power for Whitehorse as well as the town of Faro. The water backed up by the dam forms Schwatka Lake which has tamed the infamous Whitehorse Rapids. On the east side of the dam, you can see one of the world's longest all-wooden fish ladders. In August, when salmon are running upstream to spawn, you can view the fish through a window at the side of the ladder.
For thousands of years, hundreds of Chinook salmon - born several years earlier in the Yukon River's tributaries – have left the Bering Sea and returned to their natal stream to spawn. The salmon laid their eggs in the gravel, these eggs hatched and new salmon grew in the glacier-fed waters. The young salmon made their way back to the ocean, only to return in a few years to begin the cycle anew.
The cycle continued, uninterrupted, until the late 1950s, when the Northern Canada Power Commission (NPCP) built the Whitehorse Rapids Hydroelectric Dam to meet the electricity needs of a growing community. In 1959, the Whitehorse Fishway was built to help this ancient migration continue. In 1983 and 1984, the Whitehorse Fish Hatchery and a salmon transplant program were started in a further effort to build and maintain the salmon stocks.
www.yukonenergy.ca/services/facilities/fishway/www.yukonfga.ca/fishway/index.asp
and the webcam to watch the fish arrive is here:
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