Word: flume
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hell's Gate is open, thanks to a joint U.S.-Canadian Salmon Fisheries Commission. About half of a $2 million appropriation has been spent to create flume-like fishways which slow the rush of water, give the sockeyes a chance to rest in artificial pools in their upstream struggle. The commission hopes to restore the sockeye cycle to the pre-1913 catch of $35 million a year. But it will not know for sure whether it has succeeded until 1950, when the spawn of the present generation comes home...