Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 246, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1915 — These Fish Need Ladders. [ARTICLE]

These Fish Need Ladders.

Salmon seeking to scale the impounding wall at Gibraltar dam, on the Santa Ynez river, to reach the upper canyons and spawn, are reported to be exhausting their strength and will die. The city has reared a wall over ten feet above the bed of the stream, over which the water is flowing. On the top of the wall is a slight shelving where the fish, seeking to make the long leap, land, and they are carried by the flow back down the stream again. Engineer Pyzel, who is in /charge of the city’s reservoir works, reports he has watched dozens of big salmon or salmon trout try to make the leap and fail, and he is of the opinion that all will eventually die. When the impounding wall was built the city did not provide for a fish ladder, hence the trouble. —Santa Barbara Dispatch to Los Angeles Times.