A Fish for All Seasons

Talk about a whirlwind week! I've been busy getting the Whitehorse Rapids Fish Ladder ready to open for the season. The ladder, which is the longest wooden fish ladder in the world by the way, allows migrating salmon to travel past our dam and return to their spawning grounds. We have a visitor reception centre with underwater viewing windows and cameras, displays and the like, and outside there are viewing decks, a wall tent that tells this story from the First Nation's perspective, and numerous information panels.

We get about 30,000 visitors to the centre every summer, making it one of the most popular places to visit in Whitehorse.

Here are a few quick pics I snapped this morning, just before the doors opened.

Viewing fish using underwater cameras. If you look closely at the bottom left screen, you will see the tail end of a white fish.
The underwater viewing windows, that allow people to see the fish swimming up the ladder. Note the new flooring....salmon coloured of course!

A cedar carving of salmon, done by a local First Nations artist, and a poster produced based on his art work.
Display of male and female chinook salmon with their spawning colours.