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Originally Posted by Cannonball
So where do you stand?
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Is there no way that they could open flood gates in the dams, or upper levels of the dams to allow the salmon through?
The only thing I've ever read on the subject of fish runs and dams was an envrionmental impact assesment of the idea to build a massive tidal power dam across the Severn Estuary. I'm pretty sure that the study said that tidal turbines were not expected to harm any fish swimming through them so fish runs might be uneccessary (I dont think there are any salmon in the Severn Estuary though). However the whole exercise was done about 20 years ago and was rather theoretical.
I haven't made my mind up about nuclear power yet so I'm not sure I'd favour Nuclear Power stations rather than hydro, however it doesn't seem right about the salmon. I think my favourite option would be to try to modify the dams further to overcome the salmon problems. Has anybody looked into this?