Grand Coulee dam was built with no fish passage and pretty much screwed 100's of miles of river from ever seeing an anadromous fish again.

Then, a few years later, they built Chief Joseph dam, I think some 60 miles downstream from GC. It doesn't have any fish passage structures at all, either.

We can argue the relative merits of dams and their fish passage, which all science shows is absolutely terrible for fish survival, whether that be adults going up or juveniles coming down, but there's not even an argument for no fish passage facilities.

Fish on...

Todd.

P.S. Any benefit of water flows from Priest Rapids dam is 1) far outweighed by the damages done by dams, and 2) would be wholly unnecessary if the dams weren't ever there in the first place. Many millions of salmon and steelhead seemed to do just fine for tens of thousands of years without the dams. To claim that they are better off in any way, shape, or form from the dams is just not true.