CATHLAMET, Wahkiakum County — More than eight decades after their demise, fish traps are getting a fresh look from researchers convinced they offer a more sustainable way to catch Columbia River ...

About half the salmon swimming up the Columbia River come from hatcheries, and most of them are raised to be caught by fishermen. The rest are wild, and many of them are protected under the Endangered ...

Scientists exploring an underwater region off the coast of Alaska discovered an ancient stone fish trap that may be the oldest ever found. University academics working with the Sealaska Heritage ...

The goal was simple: build a functioning fish trap using only palm tree materials and set it in a tide pool to catch whatever exotic fish and crabs happened to be living there. The execution is ...

Puerto Rico fishermen and conservation teams remove ghost traps after Hurricane Maria to protect marine life and support ...

New fish trap that allows unwanted fish to escape wins conservation award. Photo by: Tim McClanahan/WCS. An innovative fish trap that allows small non-target fish to escape has won a new content by ...

San Jose residents are being asked to keep an eye out for people setting illegal fish traps in local waterways after city workers and South Bay Clean Creeks Coalition volunteers recently broke up ...

Magnets may be the answer to repelling sharks and rays from fish traps, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Newcastle in Australia. The declining population of sharks and rays ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fish traps that have survived tens of thousands of years show the resourcefulness of Brunswick’s indigenous population, according ...

The Wild Fish Conservancy in partnership with other conservation groups has spent two seasons employing test fish traps on the Columbia River near Cathlamet. The once-outlawed commercial fishing ...