Whooshh Innovations fish passage technolgy

Whooshh Innovations will be demonstrating its state-of-the-art fish passage technolgy at the Chief Joseph Dam in Bridgeport, Washington.

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Tue., Sept. 10, 2019

Whooshh Innovations machinery is set up on a barge at the Chief Joseph Dam in Bridgeport where the company wanted to show off its Whooshh Passage Portal, a system for moving salmon past hydroelectric dams, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2019. The system picks up individual fish and shoots them through a flexible tube using water and air pressure.

Jesse Tinsley The Spokesman-Review
Whooshh Innovations CEO Vince Bryan III, left, speaks to the crowd gathered at the Chief Joseph Dam in Bridgeport where his company was operating its Whooshh Passage Portal, a system for moving salmon past hydroelectric dams, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2019. The system picks up individual fish and shoots them through a flexible tube using water and air pressure.

Jesse Tinsley The Spokesman-Review
Whooshh Innovations CEO Vince Bryan III, left, speaks to the crowd gathered at the Chief Joseph Dam in Bridgeport where his company was operating its Whooshh Passage Portal, a system for moving salmon past hydroelectric dams, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2019. The system picks up individual fish and shoots them through a flexible tube using water and air pressure.

Jesse Tinsley The Spokesman-Review
Whooshh Innovations displayed its original “salmon cannon” device at the Chief Joseph Dam in Bridgeport where the company was operating its Whooshh Passage Portal, a system for moving salmon past hydroelectric dams, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2019. The prototype was used to prove that fish could be sent through a pressurized tubing system and survive to continue their journey. The new system picks up individual fish and shoots them through a flexible tube using water and air pressure.

Jesse Tinsley The Spokesman-Review
Whooshh Innovations’s machinery sits on a barge next to the Chief Joseph Dam in Bridgeport the company was showing off its Whooshh Passage Portal, a system for moving salmon past hydroelectric dams, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2019. The system picks up individual fish and shoots them through a flexible tube using water and air pressure. No fish were moved Tuesday because the salmon weren’t running, but interested stakeholders are hoping that this active system take the place of manmade fish ladders to help fish around dams.

Jesse Tinsley The Spokesman-Review
Whooshh Innovations strung a flexible tube up and down the hillside beside the Chief Joseph Dam in Bridgeport to comonstrate the Whooshh Passage Portal, a system for moving salmon past hydroelectric dams, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2019. The system picks up individual fish and shoots them through a flexible tube using water and air pressure. If put into use, either as a temporary, portable system or a permanently installed system, the pipe would carry fish over a dam that blocks the progress of anadromous fish.

Jesse Tinsley The Spokesman-Review
Darnell Sam, chairman of the fisheries committee of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation stands on a platform as he speaks to the crowd gathered at the Chief Joseph Dam in Bridgeport to see the Whooshh Passage Portal, a system for moving salmon past hydroelectric dams, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2019. The system picks up individual fish and shoots them through a flexible tube using water and air pressure.

Jesse Tinsley The Spokesman-Review