A new experiment is testing the commercial success of fish traps in Washington and Oregon. Even as some conservationists embrace the technique, its return has reopened old wounds among local fishers ...
Two homemade fish traps went head to head in the same water. Same bait, same conditions, very different results. This test shows which DIY design actually catches fish and which one completely fails. ...
Nearly a century ago, fish traps were banned on the Columbia River. The practice had been used by Indigenous communities of the Northwest for a millennia, but when European settlers expanded west, ...