§ 5938 Dam Fishway Hatchery Requirement

• •If building a fish ladder (a way for fish to go around a dam) is too hard because the dam is too tall or other reasons, the dam owner might have to build a fish hatchery instead.
• •The government picks where the hatchery goes and what it needs, like houses for workers and traps to catch fish.
• •The dam owner has to pay for building the hatchery, but the government runs it after it’s built.
• •The dam owner might still have to pay some costs later, but the main job is just building the hatchery.

A company owns a really tall dam, and fish can’t swim past it to lay their eggs upstream.

Instead of making a fish ladder (which is too hard because the dam is so tall), the government tells the company to build a fish hatchery nearby. The company pays for the hatchery, and the government takes care of running it. The company might still have to pay some money later, but their big job is just building the hatchery.