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There's a fish doorbell in the Netherlands too! They have a webcam set up with a livestream so people can ring the doorbell when there's fish waiting to pass through the boat lock
Hi Grady, can you create a series of engineering used in High rise plumbing. How the pipes don't burst when buildings flex. How the pressure is controlled for each floor etc.
Fish reach the processing plant, the way is guarded by Gary the gatekeeper who offers a choice: You can be processed into fillets and other fish based products, or go upstream to procreate and further your species. Which do you choose...the former, or the ladder?
You can come visit ours for free :) From October to April, our doors are open Monday through Friday, welcoming visitors from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. Then, during the warmer months from May to September, we extend our hours to seven days a week, still from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. No appointments are required; simply drop by at your convenience. In this video, Grady takes you on a journey to McNary Lock and Dam, nestled along the picturesque Columbia River in Umatilla, Oregon. While there, explore the intricate fish ladders, just one of the many marvels awaiting discovery. Don't forget, we also feature fish ladders at four other captivating projects along the Lower Snake River.
I love your self-deprecating humor, from the "engineer who dressed himself" to the "nothing like a grown man playing with a fish in his garage" comments. Always fun and informative videos.
You have a really nice demeanor and you're easy to listen to. I know you've probably been told this before, but it really is true. I genuinely enjoy learning from your videos.
Aerial fish stocking does work, at least in certain circumstances. In Utah high elevation lakes that are inaccessible to trucks are routinely stocked from the air with very small trout. The fish are usually less than 2" in size and survival is well over 90%. Obviously a larger fish would just go splat, but the little ones almost float down like leaves.
I'm assuming he's probably talking about dropping salmon, but even then, couldn't you just drop them really close to the surface of the water and it would be fine?
@@trainzelda1428even fighter jets generally only get down to about 50 feet above the ground. Getting low enough to drop the fish would probably be overly perilous for the plane. Also if you have trees or similar around the water the plane might not be able to get enough area to drop fish without running into whatever was around the drop area.
@@bmanning4999 that makes sense, I guess I was picturing a small seaplane or something circling it's way down but that would obviously not be an effective way to transport large fish. Suffice it to say I do not know much about aircraft lol. Also, I grew up near lake Erie, and I have to remember sometimes that most lakes are ummm not quite to that scale
You and Smarter Every Day are two of my favourite youtubers. I feel like the two of you could do a subject and the two of you would make completely different and both completely fascinating videos.
Can you do a short on how you make your display tanks. What materials you choose and why, challenges and mistakes that can be made and what you use to create the colour, glittery effect and maintenance. Your displays are always so good!
I'm a PhD student studying the impacts of damming on salmonid anatomy and evolution and I gotta say, I love your video! In every presentation, I always say that the most important thing we can do as scientists and engineers is find a balance between conservation and human need :) Lovely video! Made me so happy to learn more about fish ladders from an engineering perspective!
That's true and your PhD thesis sounds interesting, I have wondered myself about those impacts from the beginning of the video. I would add that, as a social scientist, one of the most important thing I can do is question whether or not our "human needs" are really needs for the working class and not just wants from the ruling class, and what are the real needs of the working class. One example is how the car and oil industries lobbied for car-dependent cities, creating an artificial need for their products at the cost of the working class. From the words of Chico Mendes, a Brazilian conservationist and climate activist, "ecology without class struggle is just gardening"
It's really impressive what lengths these engineers go to create efishient designs to solve sofishticated natural problems. I wasn't even aware of these efforts before watching your last two videos.
The word is cue, not queue. A queue is when we line up and wait, like at the supermarket checkout. A cue is a signal that an performance or action should occur, such as when a film director shouts "Action!" or "Cut!"
Like Cupofcheetos already stated, that's the Netherlands. I'm guessing we've got slightly less huge elevation issues for migratory fish here due to being relatively flat. But we do have a lot of locks along routes that aren't great for fish. Not sure what the usual mitigation for that is, but one notable one as you mentioned is the fish doorbell to periodically open a lock during low ship traffic times for the fish. Speaking of dams though! A passage is being made in the "afsluitdijk" (which is really a dam I guess since it keeps the sea out?), it's getting a "vismigratierivier" (fish migration rivier). Instead of the usual elevation differences it has to function with high and low tides, also not change from salt to sweet water too rapidly for the fish. Oh and somewhat importantly, not allow too much salt water to get in. Searching for "Wereldprimeur bij de Afsluitdijk" should come up with a 10 month old video by the NU.nl outlet, narration is in Dutch but enabling captions set to auto translate is fairly reasonable. The visuals are fairly self explanatory anyway after already having gone through this actual in depth video, except for the brief bit about salt to sweet water transition. Might be easier to link the video but in the past I've noticed depending on the settings of the channel that it can supress the comments.
I would love to see more videos related to this intersection of environmental impact and engineering, really enjoyed this one. I also deeply appreciate that you have manually subtitled most (all?) of your videos!!
In my country, people say fish ladders are a scam, now I know that it's not that fish ladders don't work, it's that badly designed fish ladders don't work.
I would argue as Wa res that poorly designed worked too. I've seen reduced numbers from early 90s, long after dams. There's a fish cannon somewhere too. They figure out how to catch a ride, one way or another.
what is your country? i had never even heard of them til this video so its almost hard to imagine theres a place where they're not only known but controversial lol
@user-ze7sj4qy6q does it matter? Bad engineering hasn't stopped all fish. Sure 5% more up river IS better. What if another protected species, sea lions/seals, impact 10% of returns? Let's focus on stuffs that peoples feels betters abouts... ssilly
In my hometown the deficiencies of fish ladders were used as somewhat of a scapegoat to avoid the city council admitting that the local native tribe had killed all the remaining fish.
@Mike_Rogge shocking. That NEVER happens... treaties should be followed AND let's do best by our environment... hydro power is great, ask Wa state about how much it BUYS BACK from Canada
I'm an environmental engineer. I really like this ecological content. Maybe you can tell something about bioengineering. Protect coastline and Riversides with living materials.
Surprised you didn't include the Ballard Locks in Seattle while you were up in the PNW. Its an interesting example of a fish ladder that exists at the fresh/salt water boundary, and it mostly serves salmon descended from ones that were introduced by humans to replace runs we destroyed in the process of diverting rivers to construct the Ship Canal and locks. There's a publicly accessible viewing window near the top of the fish ladder if you are there during the migratory period, and the surrounding site hosts a small botanical gardens. Plus, the boat locks themselves are pretty interesting to anyone watching this channel!
I was totally thinking of posting this, glad I scrolled. I'd add that after the Seafair hydroplane races are over there's a parade of boats headed to the locks with drunk people on board and it can be amusing.
i had a student today and i mentioned about practical engineering when we were talking about stabilized soil and he was like I LOVE THAT CHANNEL! needless to say i gave him his max points for the day!!!
The contrast of this level of ingenuity dedicated towards animals of a different species for survival while on the opposite side of the planet there are same-old-same-old strategies to eliminate the species of our own kind is uncanny.
It really is amazing how complex these need to be. Worked with plenty of fisheries biologists and fish ladders was always a hot topic. They work (kinda) when they do but they can super difficult to design perfectly and when they don't work they pretty much don't work at all.
apart from the fact the dams have meant we lost 20% of all salmon in the last 20 years. Although you are right at least we have tried to not fully prioritise the energy industry over the fishing industry in a fascinating way.
There is a huge fish passage program going on right now between WSDOT and the tribes in Washington State to remove fish barriers. Not so much fish ladders but more stream and culvert improvements
I'm liking how this topic covers how engineering can work for species other than humans. A new way of looking at things. Strong work and good topic. Thanks Grady!
Thank you so much for covering this! I would love to see more videos about other types of wildlife crossings. For example, you could talk about bridges for land animals to cross the roads we build. I'm also very curious if there are any other laws similar to Washington's that require the consideration of wildlife when building land structures.
So now I've envisioning a fish elevator, elevator music and all. Maybe you CAN train fish to use an elevator if the ones that survive that ordeal are the ones who produce the most offspring. Then you could just blast elevator music into the water near the entrances.
It’s fascinating that fish ladders are seen as essentially necessary for dams due to the fragmentation of their habitat, but the vast majority of roads through wild areas have no such consideration for wildlife. Habitat fragmentation from roads is an enormous problem, the book “Traffication” is all about how roads have destroyed natural habitats and created pockets of gene pools that don’t cross those roads.
In a good number of places, wildlife bridges / underpasses can now be economically justified by the cost of car-animal crashes. Sad, but at least it gets them built.
@@a2e5 unfortunately that’s only a small subset of the problem. Large animals like deer might cross a street, but smaller slower animals might not make it across, and many don’t even try, keeping them locked in a tiny genetic pool that is the island of wilderness locked in by roads on all sides
@@birdrocket yeah. the deer in this case works like a flagship species for wildlife bridges. except instead of being out there attracting conservation work due to their cuteness (like the classical case, pendas), they’re out getting hit.
@@a2e5 even where wildlife crossings exist, there are many animals that’ll never cross. Roadway noise creates like a mile buffer on either side for a lot of species
have you seen the video of the dead fish swimming upstream? the vortices that roll off the sides of the fish cause it to swim against currents, even while 100% dead. Seems like it is easier for fish to swim upstream than we imagine.
Technically, Steel-Head is a migratory Trout, not an actual species of Salmon. The five Salmon on the West coast are Chinook/King, Koho/Silver, Sockeye/Red, Pink/Humpies, or Chum/Dog-fish.
I wonder if anyone has implemented a Tesla valve as a fish ladder. With the Js slowing down the downstream flow, each hook helps the fish swim upstream. I think you could make it large scale, with deep channels to handle different lake levels. If not, why not…? 🤷♂️ maybe 2-3 hooks per pool transition…
I can't imagine the number of hours of trial-and-error that went into these designs. That's a *lot* of work, right there. And I'm sure those designs are being refined even now, as the engineers and scientists learn more and more about these ecosystems.
This video makes me want to volunteer with my local fishing association. They do a ton of work on managing migration routes for Atlantic Salmon in my city. Thanks for such a fun and educational video! 😃
I can't be the only one that read the title as "Finnish Ladders". I was like, "let's see what these Finnish Ladders are all about" *clicks video* Oooooh, fish ladders....that makes more sense.
They accelerate fish to high speed and smash them against one other, then examine the splatter for evidence of new kinds of fish that are theorized to exist.
As someone who often gets tours and meetings with brilliant people, do you find that people are open to showing what they love and where they work to others freely or do you flex your social media influence? I'd love to go to places like this and ask for a tour on how these work.
It's unlikely that Grady hides the existence or prominence of this channel when approaching institutions for collaboration, so that definitely plays a part in the considerations of the other party. Grady has all the credentials to provide a very attractive pitch to any institution; I'm sure alot of that attraction IS the passion of the experts and their desire to share their field of expertise with the world at large, but another attraction would be visibility for their institution itself. All good things
There should be a followup to this one. Enabling the fish getting upstream is only one part of the environmental problem. The other one is getting silt and sediment down. As far as I remember, this was the major consideration for the removal of the Elwha River dams. Without the sediment, the rivers simply aren't livable for salmon, and you can clearly see that impact in the mouth of the river. Are there engineering solutions for that problem? As far as I know, a lot of dams are currently suffering from big sediment deposits.
I was watching a documentary about the River Danube last night. Apparently the Iron Gates Dam has had a catastrophic effect on Beluga migration and so caviare production. It must be difficult designing a fish ladder for something the size of a beluga.
We've just opened a fish sluice on the River Trent in England to bypass a large weir (I say large, I mean in English scales). I am going to see it next week!
I want to see a fish ladder. I guess it’s weird but it’s on my bucket list. I absolutely loved this video. You’re so talented, you help me (no background in engineering) understand how things work like never before.
Man i did not know a video about this would be this interesting for this long. And im literally studying wildlife conservation in college. Incredible work brother❤
I wonder, when the fish are above the dam, wouldn’t they get disoriented because the flow there would be very slow? There is a huge almost still body of water they’ll have to find their way through
I've had the opportunity to visit the St Stephen fish lift in Berkeley County, South Carolina. It's impressive. The people that run that thing do a fantastic job and help greatly with conservation. Hundreds of thousands of striped bass and American shad swim through it each year and spawn. If any of you guys are ever in the area when the fish are running and ever get the chance to tour it I recommend it. They have viewing windows in the fish lift so you can see the fish swimming through it.
fun fact: with washington state, we love our hydroelectric dams (with understanding on my end) which also makes to understandable with fishway/ladders to be put in the designs of the state dams
Thank you so much, Grady. Your videos are so easy on the eye, the ear, and the brain - and all in a totally BS-free format. That means a lot. Edit: Please do not ever feel pressure to "Increase Your Production Values". You're right in the sweet spot, already!
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Wow, your sponsor seems really interesting this week!
Question: Do fish ladders really work 🤔?
Answer: WE'RE TRYING! OK?! (he said calmly)
Could you do an episode on potholes? Feel free to come to Minnesota; we have some fine examples of these serious road hazards.
CNBC is middle?? 😂😅😅
@@lonjohnson5161he already has one on potholes
I'm glad you didn't post this yesterday, no one would have believed that fish can climb ladders.
Except everyone that heard about fish ladders years ago.
Personally, i find the idea of a fish who can climb ladders offensive.
@@nian60false
Yeah. Thank God. Because we all know they prefer the stairs. They have a fear of heights.
Why? Did something happen since yesterday?
There's a fish doorbell in the Netherlands too! They have a webcam set up with a livestream so people can ring the doorbell when there's fish waiting to pass through the boat lock
Visdeurbel!
@@roelieboy204 I never knew that I could read Dutch until now. Dutch is just badly spelled English with the whitespace removed :P Similar to German :)
@@danielreed5199 Sadly it's a bit more complicated lol. But some words do sound similar.
That has to be one of the most adorable things of all time
@@roelieboy204 i once heard the languages described as sounding like someone is having a stroke to a monolingual speaker of the opposite one
"A big part of engineering, is fixing the problems we've created in the past"
If only more engineers would see it this way
And by doing so, we create different problems future engineers will have to solve
@@Skullair313 Steady employment.
Many of us do, we want to innovate! But the NIMBY crowd, greedy land/resource stealing corpos and shady politicians who employ us don't
😂
But obviously the problems are outweighed by the benefits, or they would have never been implemented
Hi Grady, can you create a series of engineering used in High rise plumbing. How the pipes don't burst when buildings flex. How the pressure is controlled for each floor etc.
That would be awesome!
+1 Vote for this!
Adding my comment and voice to push this idea along.
I vote for this too
INDEED!!!!
Fish reach the processing plant, the way is guarded by Gary the gatekeeper who offers a choice:
You can be processed into fillets and other fish based products, or go upstream to procreate and further your species.
Which do you choose...the former, or the ladder?
This is good.
This comment wins today's Internet.
Lol this is legendary
I feel like I owe you money now, in a good way. To compensate for my lack of options to compensate you, please imagine me throwing pennies at you.
My instant reaction to the video was to write gag, but I bow to your comedy superiority. 💯🏆
1:50 "You've probably seen a fish ladder before."
I appreciate the confidence you have in me but no I've never seen a fish ladder before.
You can come visit ours for free :)
From October to April, our doors are open Monday through Friday, welcoming visitors from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. Then, during the warmer months from May to September, we extend our hours to seven days a week, still from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. No appointments are required; simply drop by at your convenience. In this video, Grady takes you on a journey to McNary Lock and Dam, nestled along the picturesque Columbia River in Umatilla, Oregon. While there, explore the intricate fish ladders, just one of the many marvels awaiting discovery. Don't forget, we also feature fish ladders at four other captivating projects along the Lower Snake River.
@@WallaWallaUSACE
Seriously?
Snakes and Ladders. Brill!
He showed one in another video not long ago so chances are most of his subscribers have seen one (in a video) before.
Until I started watching this video I'd never even heard of them.
I live in Washington so they are ever where (the state not the district)
I love your self-deprecating humor, from the "engineer who dressed himself" to the "nothing like a grown man playing with a fish in his garage" comments. Always fun and informative videos.
I'd call it more self-aware and willing to make some fun of himself, more than self deprecating. Nothing wrong with any of those things!
"Engineer dressed himself today" XD
I once got a compliment for my dressing at a family party and i had to say "My girlfriend dressed me."
Same energy
You have a really nice demeanor and you're easy to listen to.
I know you've probably been told this before, but it really is true.
I genuinely enjoy learning from your videos.
In a time where so many talking heads and TH-camrs have terrible speaking skills this channel is so refreshing.
Aerial fish stocking does work, at least in certain circumstances. In Utah high elevation lakes that are inaccessible to trucks are routinely stocked from the air with very small trout. The fish are usually less than 2" in size and survival is well over 90%. Obviously a larger fish would just go splat, but the little ones almost float down like leaves.
I'm assuming he's probably talking about dropping salmon, but even then, couldn't you just drop them really close to the surface of the water and it would be fine?
@@trainzelda1428even fighter jets generally only get down to about 50 feet above the ground. Getting low enough to drop the fish would probably be overly perilous for the plane. Also if you have trees or similar around the water the plane might not be able to get enough area to drop fish without running into whatever was around the drop area.
@@bmanning4999 that makes sense, I guess I was picturing a small seaplane or something circling it's way down but that would obviously not be an effective way to transport large fish. Suffice it to say I do not know much about aircraft lol.
Also, I grew up near lake Erie, and I have to remember sometimes that most lakes are ummm not quite to that scale
@@trainzelda1428 but wouldn’t it be …great…if they were that scale?
You and Smarter Every Day are two of my favourite youtubers. I feel like the two of you could do a subject and the two of you would make completely different and both completely fascinating videos.
100% with you.
Can you do a short on how you make your display tanks. What materials you choose and why, challenges and mistakes that can be made and what you use to create the colour, glittery effect and maintenance. Your displays are always so good!
I second this request!
third
He made a video about them previously. It's really trivial anyway, some acrylic, glue, sealant etc. Loads of other videos about it
Nobody learns from TH-cam shorts
I'm a PhD student studying the impacts of damming on salmonid anatomy and evolution and I gotta say, I love your video! In every presentation, I always say that the most important thing we can do as scientists and engineers is find a balance between conservation and human need :) Lovely video! Made me so happy to learn more about fish ladders from an engineering perspective!
That's true and your PhD thesis sounds interesting, I have wondered myself about those impacts from the beginning of the video. I would add that, as a social scientist, one of the most important thing I can do is question whether or not our "human needs" are really needs for the working class and not just wants from the ruling class, and what are the real needs of the working class. One example is how the car and oil industries lobbied for car-dependent cities, creating an artificial need for their products at the cost of the working class. From the words of Chico Mendes, a Brazilian conservationist and climate activist, "ecology without class struggle is just gardening"
It's really impressive what lengths these engineers go to create efishient designs to solve sofishticated natural problems. I wasn't even aware of these efforts before watching your last two videos.
Thumbs up for the puns 👍
Thank you!
Cue “the salmon disguised in a trench coat taking the stairs” Far Side.
A queue of salmon?
cue
The word is cue, not queue. A queue is when we line up and wait, like at the supermarket checkout. A cue is a signal that an performance or action should occur, such as when a film director shouts "Action!" or "Cut!"
Ok then, cue.
@@SanchoPanza-m8m Huh. I did not know that usage. Thanks!
I read the title without my glasses on and I spent more time than I care to admit, trying to figure out how fish-ladies work.
Mermaids.
_"Engineer dressed himself today."_
I felt that.
as a fish, i can confirm this
How is your comment 7 minutes old, and the video 5 minuted old 😂
@@wesleyestelritz202nah it's 1 minute after the upload of video
blup blup blup.. blup blup ?
As a ladder, it'd be nice if you just said thank you on your way up.
you're god dam right
Study for my mid-term ❌
Learn about fish ladders ✅
If you judge a fish by it's ability to climb a ladder, it will live it's whole life believing it's a roofer.
USA: We need a carefully tuned, complex piece of infrastructure so as to not interrupt fish migration.
Germany: FISH DOORBELL
It’s the Netherlands but Germany probably has something similar
@@Cupofcheetos We have fish ladders in germany. We call them fish "stairs". But i guess somewhere might be something like a doorbell. idk
I LOVE THAT SITE
Like Cupofcheetos already stated, that's the Netherlands.
I'm guessing we've got slightly less huge elevation issues for migratory fish here due to being relatively flat. But we do have a lot of locks along routes that aren't great for fish. Not sure what the usual mitigation for that is, but one notable one as you mentioned is the fish doorbell to periodically open a lock during low ship traffic times for the fish.
Speaking of dams though! A passage is being made in the "afsluitdijk" (which is really a dam I guess since it keeps the sea out?), it's getting a "vismigratierivier" (fish migration rivier). Instead of the usual elevation differences it has to function with high and low tides, also not change from salt to sweet water too rapidly for the fish. Oh and somewhat importantly, not allow too much salt water to get in.
Searching for "Wereldprimeur bij de Afsluitdijk" should come up with a 10 month old video by the NU.nl outlet, narration is in Dutch but enabling captions set to auto translate is fairly reasonable. The visuals are fairly self explanatory anyway after already having gone through this actual in depth video, except for the brief bit about salt to sweet water transition. Might be easier to link the video but in the past I've noticed depending on the settings of the channel that it can supress the comments.
I would love to see more videos related to this intersection of environmental impact and engineering, really enjoyed this one. I also deeply appreciate that you have manually subtitled most (all?) of your videos!!
auto-generated subtitles never seem to keep up with my preference for 1.5x playback speed
In my country, people say fish ladders are a scam, now I know that it's not that fish ladders don't work, it's that badly designed fish ladders don't work.
I would argue as Wa res that poorly designed worked too. I've seen reduced numbers from early 90s, long after dams.
There's a fish cannon somewhere too. They figure out how to catch a ride, one way or another.
what is your country? i had never even heard of them til this video so its almost hard to imagine theres a place where they're not only known but controversial lol
@user-ze7sj4qy6q does it matter? Bad engineering hasn't stopped all fish. Sure 5% more up river IS better. What if another protected species, sea lions/seals, impact 10% of returns?
Let's focus on stuffs that peoples feels betters abouts... ssilly
In my hometown the deficiencies of fish ladders were used as somewhat of a scapegoat to avoid the city council admitting that the local native tribe had killed all the remaining fish.
@Mike_Rogge shocking. That NEVER happens... treaties should be followed AND let's do best by our environment... hydro power is great, ask Wa state about how much it BUYS BACK from Canada
I'm an environmental engineer. I really like this ecological content. Maybe you can tell something about bioengineering. Protect coastline and Riversides with living materials.
I would love to hear more ecological engineering stories!
How do human ladders work?
Left foot, right foot, levatating
A series of tubes
Basing my info off the fish ladder. Attain ascension to use human ladders.
How do human fish work?
They don't work; they just lean there. We have to do the work.
Surprised you didn't include the Ballard Locks in Seattle while you were up in the PNW. Its an interesting example of a fish ladder that exists at the fresh/salt water boundary, and it mostly serves salmon descended from ones that were introduced by humans to replace runs we destroyed in the process of diverting rivers to construct the Ship Canal and locks.
There's a publicly accessible viewing window near the top of the fish ladder if you are there during the migratory period, and the surrounding site hosts a small botanical gardens. Plus, the boat locks themselves are pretty interesting to anyone watching this channel!
I was totally thinking of posting this, glad I scrolled. I'd add that after the Seafair hydroplane races are over there's a parade of boats headed to the locks with drunk people on board and it can be amusing.
i had a student today and i mentioned about practical engineering when we were talking about stabilized soil and he was like I LOVE THAT CHANNEL! needless to say i gave him his max points for the day!!!
An educator that can’t capitalise an I. I call bullshit.
Fish cannon is pretty rad.
The contrast of this level of ingenuity dedicated towards animals of a different species for survival while on the opposite side of the planet there are same-old-same-old strategies to eliminate the species of our own kind is uncanny.
Dropping fish from airplanes is THE latest grocery store promotion from WKRP in Cincinnati
It really is amazing how complex these need to be. Worked with plenty of fisheries biologists and fish ladders was always a hot topic. They work (kinda) when they do but they can super difficult to design perfectly and when they don't work they pretty much don't work at all.
can't wait for the francis scott key bridge episode
Ok that fish window is so DAM cool
humans although portrayed as destructive in a lot of media, rarely do they show the weird and fascinating this humanity does
apart from the fact the dams have meant we lost 20% of all salmon in the last 20 years. Although you are right at least we have tried to not fully prioritise the energy industry over the fishing industry in a fascinating way.
There is a huge fish passage program going on right now between WSDOT and the tribes in Washington State to remove fish barriers. Not so much fish ladders but more stream and culvert improvements
I'm not saying my cat showed up just because you kept saying fish but I am saying I am starting to think my cat understands the word fish...
Today's fish is Trout a la Creme. Enjoy your meal.
no it didn't
Your cat monitors your TH-cam activity. RUN
@@scarybaldguy I will!
I have 4 cats, each is a rescue, but they all know their name and certain words.
*me watching the demonic-looking lampreys sidle up the ladder* "Are we 100% sure we want all types of fish to be able to travel upriver?"
Yes, they are cleaners 😇
That's like saying you don't want custodians to clean the schools our children attend
@@malapertfourohfour2112Oh so that's why they were attached to the glass. The more you know
@@malapertfourohfour2112They're parasites, they have a circular row of teeth and latch onto larger fish using them to feed
Just so you know, lampreys have been known to climb walls - out of water - so just add that one to your fear book.
1:22 Made me check my own collar, good catch.
The scene at 2:41, presumably shot weeks earlier, makes me think the problem is with the shirt.
I'm liking how this topic covers how engineering can work for species other than humans. A new way of looking at things. Strong work and good topic. Thanks Grady!
11:00 "What's your job?" "Counting fish"
Fish are always interesting.
Oh, oh I actually love your physical models so much. Thumbnail gets me every time I see one. So satisfying.
Thank you so much for covering this! I would love to see more videos about other types of wildlife crossings. For example, you could talk about bridges for land animals to cross the roads we build. I'm also very curious if there are any other laws similar to Washington's that require the consideration of wildlife when building land structures.
興味深いお話をありがとうございました。字幕をつけてくださってありがとうございます。理解しやすかったです。ありがとう、日本より。
So now I've envisioning a fish elevator, elevator music and all. Maybe you CAN train fish to use an elevator if the ones that survive that ordeal are the ones who produce the most offspring. Then you could just blast elevator music into the water near the entrances.
Duh, they consist of very small rungs so the fish can use their fingers 😉
Fins 😊
And feet...
Fin-gers
@@Nobody-vr5nl Fishfingers, the British name for Fish-sticks.
aww... so that's where fish fingers come from
Fish ascend ladders riding bicycles. Patrick Star said so.
Papa Fish: Finally! We made it! Gosh 100 jumps is so exhausting! I hope everyone is here?
Mama Fish: 1, 2, 3.........
*KEVIN!!!*
It’s fascinating that fish ladders are seen as essentially necessary for dams due to the fragmentation of their habitat, but the vast majority of roads through wild areas have no such consideration for wildlife.
Habitat fragmentation from roads is an enormous problem, the book “Traffication” is all about how roads have destroyed natural habitats and created pockets of gene pools that don’t cross those roads.
In a good number of places, wildlife bridges / underpasses can now be economically justified by the cost of car-animal crashes. Sad, but at least it gets them built.
@@a2e5 unfortunately that’s only a small subset of the problem. Large animals like deer might cross a street, but smaller slower animals might not make it across, and many don’t even try, keeping them locked in a tiny genetic pool that is the island of wilderness locked in by roads on all sides
@@birdrocket yeah. the deer in this case works like a flagship species for wildlife bridges. except instead of being out there attracting conservation work due to their cuteness (like the classical case, pendas), they’re out getting hit.
@@a2e5 even where wildlife crossings exist, there are many animals that’ll never cross. Roadway noise creates like a mile buffer on either side for a lot of species
Buffalo range got cut by railways
As a fish, such efforts are much appreciated
have you seen the video of the dead fish swimming upstream? the vortices that roll off the sides of the fish cause it to swim against currents, even while 100% dead. Seems like it is easier for fish to swim upstream than we imagine.
“How are they motivated?” I’m picturing Alan Rickman in “Galaxy Quest.”
I also picture somebody trained in motivational interviewing talking to the fish to convince them that they want to climb the fish ladder.
Dam this is a very filling video
Technically, Steel-Head is a migratory Trout, not an actual species of Salmon. The five Salmon on the West coast are Chinook/King, Koho/Silver, Sockeye/Red, Pink/Humpies, or Chum/Dog-fish.
"I know that human beings and fish can coexist peacefully." - George W Bush
I wonder if anyone has implemented a Tesla valve as a fish ladder. With the Js slowing down the downstream flow, each hook helps the fish swim upstream. I think you could make it large scale, with deep channels to handle different lake levels. If not, why not…? 🤷♂️ maybe 2-3 hooks per pool transition…
@6:08 “Most fish can’t climb actual ladders”. Are there any fish that can climb ACTUAL ladders??
Yes, Mud skippers can climb ladders by extension of being able to climb trees
a question I didn't know I wanted the answer to. Thanks to both of you :)
not with a can of paint and a scraper
I can't imagine the number of hours of trial-and-error that went into these designs. That's a *lot* of work, right there. And I'm sure those designs are being refined even now, as the engineers and scientists learn more and more about these ecosystems.
They work like magnets.
This video makes me want to volunteer with my local fishing association. They do a ton of work on managing migration routes for Atlantic Salmon in my city. Thanks for such a fun and educational video! 😃
you know it's gonna be a good video when he makes a scale model 🗣🗣🗣💯🔥
So interesting how the sounds of water affect fish behavior. Great content . ❤ from 🇨🇦
I love discussions about ef-fish-ency
you could call that e-fish-ent
😂
I can't be the only one that read the title as "Finnish Ladders". I was like, "let's see what these Finnish Ladders are all about" *clicks video* Oooooh, fish ladders....that makes more sense.
Can’t relate
Martincitopants alt account?
I’m glad you Finnished that joke. I’ll let myself out 😂
@@hondahirny yikes
Thank you for this fishy bit of information. Now I understand the fish ladder at our local River here in Germany much better
Did you know that Sweden has a fish accelerator?
They accelerate fish to high speed and smash them against one other, then examine the splatter for evidence of new kinds of fish that are theorized to exist.
@@SanchoPanza-m8m Relatifishstick particles?
wouldn't that feel a little squishy under your foot ? And it would stink after a week or two.
Absolutely enthralled in these latest videos about designing for wildlife crossings. Would love to see more!
As someone who often gets tours and meetings with brilliant people, do you find that people are open to showing what they love and where they work to others freely or do you flex your social media influence? I'd love to go to places like this and ask for a tour on how these work.
It's unlikely that Grady hides the existence or prominence of this channel when approaching institutions for collaboration, so that definitely plays a part in the considerations of the other party. Grady has all the credentials to provide a very attractive pitch to any institution; I'm sure alot of that attraction IS the passion of the experts and their desire to share their field of expertise with the world at large, but another attraction would be visibility for their institution itself. All good things
Civils and fish in one video!!! Thank you just thank you. 👊🏽
0:56 why there is radiation hazard ???
Because of radiation
Because of radiation
@@suzuaiki8007 definitely because of radiation
I think it’s because of radiation
Cool stuff. I always figured fish ladders are custom engineered for each project that they're required. Thank you kindly as usual Grady. 👍
imagine designing, planning and building a fish ladder, then seeing fish just not use it.
I aspire to be one of the people that get paid to sit next to a fish window and manually count how many fish climb the ladder.
Machine learning with a camera on that window would be a very cool project.
The sponsored segment feels very badly disclosed as such.
There should be a followup to this one. Enabling the fish getting upstream is only one part of the environmental problem. The other one is getting silt and sediment down. As far as I remember, this was the major consideration for the removal of the Elwha River dams. Without the sediment, the rivers simply aren't livable for salmon, and you can clearly see that impact in the mouth of the river. Are there engineering solutions for that problem? As far as I know, a lot of dams are currently suffering from big sediment deposits.
thats really interesting actually. want that too.
Something is fishy here.
Please leave the internet. 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
Well, yes!
Lol
Underrated comment
I come for the engineering, but I stay for the movie magic!
Fish ladders are meant to make the job much more accessible and convenient to fishery workers.
This is the coolest dam video about fish!
"we've even tried dropping fish from airplanes" Can't wait for that video.
Fish air strike is the peak of military technology
Look up videos of "stocking lakes by airplane" . Pretty interesting
I LOVE watching our fish ladder! ❤️
Our dams out in the Northeast aren't nearly as tall, but it's still amazing to see what fish do to mate
I’m more of a fish cannon man myself.
I was watching a documentary about the River Danube last night. Apparently the Iron Gates Dam has had a catastrophic effect on Beluga migration and so caviare production. It must be difficult designing a fish ladder for something the size of a beluga.
We've just opened a fish sluice on the River Trent in England to bypass a large weir (I say large, I mean in English scales). I am going to see it next week!
Thanks. Pls make a video on sedimentation, silt removal and solutions of dams
my thought is basically a tesla valve type design, with the downward flow moving in the direction of maximum resistance.
I just posted the same thing. Makes great sense to me.
Side channel idea: Practical Movie Magic
I want to see a fish ladder. I guess it’s weird but it’s on my bucket list. I absolutely loved this video. You’re so talented, you help me (no background in engineering) understand how things work like never before.
Your content is such a refreshing change from the usual YT idiocy. Thanks for restoring my faith in the medium.
Man i did not know a video about this would be this interesting for this long. And im literally studying wildlife conservation in college. Incredible work brother❤
grady loves talking about the intersection of wildlife and engineering, and i love listening to grady talk about engineering :)
I wonder, when the fish are above the dam, wouldn’t they get disoriented because the flow there would be very slow? There is a huge almost still body of water they’ll have to find their way through
It seems like this might be the one place where a Tesla valve might be an actual useful concept.
I've had the opportunity to visit the St Stephen fish lift in Berkeley County, South Carolina. It's impressive. The people that run that thing do a fantastic job and help greatly with conservation. Hundreds of thousands of striped bass and American shad swim through it each year and spawn. If any of you guys are ever in the area when the fish are running and ever get the chance to tour it I recommend it. They have viewing windows in the fish lift so you can see the fish swimming through it.
fun fact: with washington state, we love our hydroelectric dams (with understanding on my end) which also makes to understandable with fishway/ladders to be put in the designs of the state dams
Thank you so much, Grady.
Your videos are so easy on the eye, the ear, and the brain - and all in a totally BS-free format.
That means a lot.
Edit: Please do not ever feel pressure to "Increase Your Production Values". You're right in the sweet spot, already!
"Engineer dressed himself" LOL! Thanks for your Pleasant and ALWAYS informative productions, I loved that touch of humor!