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FISHWAY

Specialty Definition: FISHWAY

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Food & Agriculture

An artificial passage for fish which enables them to surmount an obstruction such as a weir or dam or natural falls. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: FISHWAY

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A high flow event, preconstruction. Before the fishway passage was constructed migrating fish needed to breach a 12 foot rise where the culvert dropped off. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Sand bags hold back water flow while the fishway is installed. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Immediately after installation of the fishway, water rushes through the Alaskan Steep Pass. This fishway will allow anadromous fish to reach their spawning habitat. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

  

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Modern Translation: FISHWAY

Language Translations for "FISHWAY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

passe à poissons (fish ladder, fish pass), échelle à poissons (fish ladder, fish pass, fishpass). (various references)

   

German

  

Fischtreppe (fish ladder, fish pass, fishpass), Fischpass (fish ladder, fish pass). (various references)

   

Italian

  

scala per pesci (fish ladder, fish pass), passo per pesci (fish ladder, fish pass). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ishwayfay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: FISHWAY

Derivations

Words beginning with "FISHWAY": fishways. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: FISHWAY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-f-h-i-s-w-y"

-2 letters: fishy, hafis, waifs, washy, wisha.

-3 letters: ashy, fash, fays, fish, haws, hays, shaw, shay, sway, waif, wash, ways, whys, wish, yaws, ywis.

-4 letters: ais, ash, ays, fas, fay, has, haw, hay, his, ifs, saw, say, sha, shy, was, way, wha, why, wis, yah, yaw.

-5 letters: ah, ai, as, aw, ay, fa, ha, hi, if.

 Words containing the letters "a-f-h-i-s-w-y"
 

+1 letter: fishways.

 

+3 letters: dwarfishly.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Images: Photo Album
2. Translations: Modern
3. Derivations
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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