
caught the confused fish with said net, but then didn’t know what to do with it.

The story goes that an engineer with what was then the Holyoke Water Power Co.

Barrett Fishway and grasp that it was inspired by a net and a bucket.Īs legend has it in Holyoke, in 1955, an Atlantic salmon was trying to make its way north on the Connecticut River, back to its birthplace to spawn, when it hit what was then a roadblock - the Holyoke Dam. Paul Ducheney says the fishway was the culmination of years of study involving fish behavior, as well as considerable trial and error.Paul Ducheney acknowledged that it’s difficult to look upon the elaborate, cutting-edge Frank E.
