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Although it just missed being one of the great lakes, Lake Champlain also connects to the St Lawrence Seaway at the north end and to the Hudson River via the Champlain Canal at the south end. Recreational boaters wishing to get from NY to Canada are more likely to use the Lake Champlain, than the busy commercial St Lawrence Seaway.
Those pictures of fish jumping up the falls you have seen were not at Niagara Falls but at other man made falls where they were required to construct ”fish ladders” so the fish could go up the falls.