From the Globe and Mail
We’re going over that?
APRIL HOLLADAY
Globe and Mail Update
November 12, 2007 at 3:38 PM EST
I visited Yosemite National Park in California recently where I saw rivers that poured over cliffs, becoming thousand-foot-tall thundering waterfalls before continuing on their courses at the bottoms of valleys. Do fish get carried over these waterfalls? Or do they know to stay away from the edge??? Juliet, Toronto, Canada
Do fish go over Niagara Falls? Do they live?
It’s a cold November day on the Niagara River, barely above freezing. A steady rain beats upon the rushing water. A rainbow trout stirs deep in the river, her red band dark in the depths. Fierce river currents push her to cliff’s edge, and she falls to a pool 170 feet (50 m) below. Luckily it’s Horseshoe (where 90% of the water falls). No rocks greet her, only a pool whose bottom is 150 feet down. She plunges into the air-bubble-cushioned pool, bobs up and swims slowly away, stunned but alive.