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Salmon get shot over dams

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Nothing says environmental preservation like aggressively shooting aquatic life out of a pressurized tube. Originally designed for fruit, this pneumatic transport system literally sucks up migrating salmon and blasts them over man-made barriers so they can spawn in peace.

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