You may note that the numbers of shad and bluebacks at Rainbow are less than last week. At this fishway, these species will hold for days in the trap and may eventually drop downstream without ever reaching the top of the fishway. Downrunners are subtracted from uprunners to calculate the number that actually reach the top. You will notice that the Vernon Dam has passed more fish than the downstream Turners Falls dam. As mentioned in past years, there are problems getting accurate counts at Turners Falls.
Some fish pass through uncounted.
The one salmon that has been counted passing up through Vernon is wearing a radio tag and the State of Vermont is monitoring its upstream progress. It is now in the vicinity of the Bellows Falls Dam and Fishway and may be headed farther upstream soon. This report covers passage only through June 10. Kinneytown fish passage is video-recorded and counts are made, in part, off of tapes several days later so these data are always lagged a little behind. Water over the Greeneville Dam is higher than folks at the Norwich Public Utilities have seen it in some time.