If you go around the Twitter-verse hashtagging things like #salmoncannon (thanks @USFWSColeman!), chances are we’re going to notice here at the blog. So, without further ado, a mesmerizing video of the latest in safe, yet awesome, “fish transport systems.”
This sucker shoots salmon up to 22 miles per hour! The projectiles, I mean, amazing migratory fish, then splash down in a holding tank, ready to be carried up and over the dam that was blocking their attempts to head up stream to spawn.
You can read more about the project and this great new technology right here – go on, check it out, I’ll be here, dreaming of a day when, instead of fighting the current and laboring up fish ladders, salmon hop on the “Salmon Cannon” express and get shot up and out to higher reaches of a river!
Originally from a post by David Kirby at Takepart.com. Video courtesy of Whooshh (no, really) Innovations.