Port Hope Fish Ladder

The most famous place to see salmon in Canada is the small town of Port Hope, an hour and a half drive east of Toronto. Ganaraska River flowed through the town and built a dam manually. The salmon must skip the dam before they can go upstream. The fish are a bit exhausted here. If they don’t enter in the fast stream, they will retreat. A group of fish pile up in a slow water flow, and then they will bravely launch a charge. The force of jumping up is very strong. They will make a sound of Peng Peng on the dam. They will jump up and work harder. Swim through the rapids immediately, otherwise you will be washed down by the water. Very shocking, strong vitality!

The town is interesting, and salmon returns to aborted eggs in September and October every year. Many tourists come here to watch the event. Hundreds of salmon in a very wide river are up against the water, and they are fighting hard... This has also become a tourist project, tourists can go down the river to catch fish, but the fish caught can only take a photo and let go. Very fun. Self-driving can navigate directly to Hoppertown, about an hour from Toronto to Kingston.