| Summary: | Big Rearing Pools To Give Refuge To Fish. Big Rearing Pools to Give Refuge to Fish. Salmon in the Columbia river are going to have a $4,000,000 spawning ground near the airport at Grand Coulee dam. To protect the salmon industry further, workmen are reconstructing the fish ladders in the Rock Island dam near Wenatchee. Plans and specifications for the Grand coulee spawning ground are being prepared under the direction of Frank T. Bell, United States director of fisheries. "The plan to car for salmon at Grand coulee will be even superior to the old fish ladder idea, we are advised," said Prank A. Banks, reclamation bureau engineer in charge of Grand Coulee. "We have consulted with Mr. Bell. Will Trap Fish. "Down stream from the dam the salmon will be trapped and the spawn taken from them. A rearing pool of several acres will be built. As the young salmon develop they will be turned back in the river. This removes the hazard of fish battering themselves going up the ladders." The United States director of fisheries is to provide plans and specifications for caring for the salmon and the bureau of reclamation is to pay the cost of building the plant. As the salmon run will not be interfered with while the dam foundation work is under way, the fish plant will not be started until the high dam construction is started.
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