Then by all means explain to me how your outside the box thinking works. I do grow tired of people that do not understand that drawing power slows the flow regardless of what sort of turbine you're using.NO dude, you do NOT need to dam off the Bay, not even partially. You're still thinking inside the box.
Look, read this paper: https://www.novascotia.ca/nse/ea/wh...erence.Documents/25.Dadswell.Breir.salmon.pdf
What do you suppose turbines in the main flow would do? Do you think that nothing would happen or that it would be like the Windmills in Altamont Pass in the Livermore Valley with the ground beneath the windmills littered with the chopped up bodies of the rarest Raptors such as the Redtail Hawks and the Bald Eagles and migrating species such as ducks and geese?
Tell me - are you going to tell me I'm thinking inside the box if I tell you that NOTHING in this universe can fly faster than the speed of light and never will?
Without the wash of saltwater in and out the entire ecosystem of the bay would be destroyed.
But I'm sure that you will believe different because you're an outside the boxer.