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It’s a big weekend at the Ballard Locks as sockeye salmon return as part of their journey upstream to spawn in Lake Washington.

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Guiding outfit Ballard Kayak and Paddleboard leads kayakers through the process, departing from Shilshole. The fish ladder, however, remains off-limits.

Studies suggest that about half of the lamprey that approach the channel below the Bonneville Dam never go through a fish ladder.

The Hiram H. Chittenden Locks were created in 1917, part of the Lake Washington Ship Canal that connects inland lakes Washington and Union with the Puget Sound and Pacific Ocean.

“Even the baton twirler is sedentary,” he said. Joining the rapt audience at the locks were many boats, and the salmon, via the fish ladder. Learn more about the Ballard Locks here.

How the Ballard Locks, a well-known waterway, transformed Northwest watersheds. Sponsored by the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe.

The coho salmon has already conquered the Ballard Locks fish ladder, swum 17 miles through urban Seattle waterways and powered through a tunnel under nine lanes of Interstate 405.

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Three years ago, a Washington state senator from Ferndale introduced a bill to study the costs and benefits of breaching the Ballard Locks.