How does fish get to impossible-to-access sections of rivers? I hike and river-trace some, and I am always amazed by how I can find fish and any kind of life under water in crater...

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Jul 31, 2020 10:47:09 #

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I hike and river-trace some, and I am always amazed by how I can find fish and any kind of life under water in crater pounds, sections of rivers in between waterfalls, and water sources with no other visible access than a cliffy or almost dry river section impossible to jump up from for a normal fish.

How do they get there? Is it through subterranean water, falling out of birds? I am seriously intrigued.

Thanks!

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by klagss

Jul 31, 2020 10:47:14 #

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Floods

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by steelsurgeon

Jul 31, 2020 10:47:17 #

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I never understood how they got up some very steep natural waterfalls. Yet again one thing to consider is that geography was just not the same back years ago, fish have been around for eons. Tough to find out how a fish got somewhere with how old their history is. The size of some historical floods can explain it too

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by coalbass

Jul 31, 2020 10:47:22 #

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Birds.

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by brokedman45

Jul 31, 2020 10:47:27 #

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Birds

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by TKOtokyo

Jul 31, 2020 10:47:34 #

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I have seen fish on top of mountains in craters 1 or 2 thousand meters high and 50 meters diameter.

Birds, being there before, floods... maybe humans? cannot wrap my head around it 😄

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by klagss

Jul 31, 2020 15:01:42 #

Robert J Samples Loc: Round Rock, Texas

Have you ever considered water spouts? Google them and I think you will be amazed at how much water is pulled up into the sky. If that much water is lifted, I would assume some fish were also lifted. So, now if there were possible water spouts on a fresh water lake, it would also pick up all manner of fish and then deposit them where ever it rained. So if on a remote river or stream that would supply the answer to your question.
Just Sayin...RJS

Jul 31, 2020 16:02:47 #

GlennMc928 Loc: Tualatin OR

The water rises above land in the winter when you get the above average tides and I have found fish in small swamped holes and stuck on land just ten feet away from the running river in small holes of water left over from the winter run off.

Aug 1, 2020 10:41:29 #

Big dog Loc: Bayshore, Long Island, New York

FS Digest wrote:

There are some fish in Hawaii that actually climb up waterfalls

Aug 1, 2020 18:22:39 #

wainemaine Loc: western mountains, Maine

God !

Aug 1, 2020 22:55:39 #

20mules Loc: Chesaw, Washington

In some areas around here Fish and Game take them for an airplane ride and drop them into lakes or other bodies of water.

Aug 1, 2020 23:28:39 #

Sparky46 Loc: Port Orchard Washington

I have found 16" cutthroat trout flopping in my driveway, birds.

Aug 1, 2020 23:59:23 #

Captain Lahti Loc: Kennewick, WA

Keep in mind that the earth is a few billions of years old. Man in his present form is only a couple hundred thousand years old but fish as one example have been in the oceans and in fresh waters for millions of years. What was once a very high water fall or body of water was once a stream before eons of water flow and geological uplift, etc. created that barrier. And over those millions of years isolated species change to fit the environment they are in or trapped in.

Aug 2, 2020 02:46:08 #

wainemaine Loc: western mountains, Maine

I think sometimes natives brought the fish to get a food source closer to home. The spanish turned loose hogs for the same reason, the natives hated the new to them hogs ruining their gardens.

Aug 2, 2020 11:55:16 #

Alexb. Loc: Joshua tree, ca.

Yep, it’s in His book👍, wainemarine.

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