England, Wales & Scotland - Scotland

Fish Ladder

Pitlochry, Scotland, United Kingdom Visit Website

Recenter Map To This Location

In the 1940s the local electricity company built a hydroelectric station and dam across the salmon-rich River Tummel on the outskirts of town. It is hard to imagine a power station being an asset to the town but this is certainly the case here. From the observation room at the dam you can watch fish as they climb the 1,000-foot fish ladder around the dam and fight their way upstream to spawn in the upper reaches of the river. A special exhibition is devoted to their life cycle and the efforts being made to conserve them.