Plastic fish are coming to save salmon
Monday, November 17, 2014 at 12:00AM
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Photo: Courtesy of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

In a bid to find out the kind of struggles fish that live near hydroelectric power plants face, scientists have designed "sensor fish" — plastic tubes filled with technology that can measure the stresses and strains put on salmon swimming through dam machinery.

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